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- From: john@elsouth.uucp (John White)
- Subject: Help! How do I suppress vi tab substitution?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.202024.10292@elsouth.uucp>
- Summary: Request help suppressing tab substitution in vi. 8sp. = 1tab.
- Keywords: vi tab hate
- Organization: Electrical South Inc
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:20:24 GMT
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- I'm in Unix Sys V Rel 3.0 Ver 4 and my vi editor has the
- annoying habit of substituting 8 spaces for 1 tab. This is cute,
- but since my indenting is based on 3 spaces and that doesn't
- divide cleanly into 8, I'm often more annoyed than fond of this
- "feature". Is there a way to tunr this off? I never had this problem
- with the BSD or SunOS versions of vi. Is it Sys V dependent?
-
- Thanks, john (john%elsouth@concert.net)
-