[Gllug] vi indenting

[Jonathan Dye]

At 09:48 19/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
>>Do you have any idea how annoying that is when a file is indented by
>>people with their tabstop set to different values?
>
>Probably almost as annoying as it is when a file is indented with
>differing numbers of spaces, I'd imagine. For natural language
>texts, then sure, indent with spaces, but I've yet to see a single
>valid argument (including jwz's) for indenting code with anything
>but tabs. Maybe when you've had to work on code that's indented
>with a mix of 2, 3, 4 and 5 spaces in the same file, you'd agree.
>I have, all by different authors, of course, and it wasn't a pleasant
>experience.

OK then, is there a way to get vi to convert several spaces to a tab and back?

JD


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