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From: milos@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: HOW DO I MAKE VI'S AUTOINDENT N
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Date: 11 Jul 88 21:09:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!milos    Jul 11 17:09:00 1988


This is all well and good for creating new files or editing existing
files that were created with tabstop=70. It is not, however, the way
to go if you are editing files that were created with more typical
tabstop settings, e.g., tabstop=8. In such cases, the only reasonable
solution (as identified in another note addressing this subject) is to
run the source file through "expand" to eliminate the undesired tabs;
unfortunately, this has the potentially undesirable side-effect of
making the source file appear to have undergone more changes than
necessary -- not nice if you're dealing with SCCS/RCS.