vim: replace tabs by spaces - Editors

NewLine wrote:

> Any idea how I can replace all the tabs in my file by whitespaces (without
> altering the characters positions) I have tried things with retab, but
> cant get it to work.

Please be more specific. What doesn't work with :retab? Have you tried
setting 'expandtab' or manually specifying a tabstop?

:setl expandtab
:retab 4

If this doesn't work, you could always try

:%s/\t/ /g

HTH,
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In article <44cfb0a7$0$10460$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>,
"NewLine" <umts_remove_all_this@skynet.be> wrote:

> Any idea how I can replace all the tabs in my file by whitespaces (without
> altering the characters positions)
> I have tried things with retab, but cant get it to work.

I've always set the 'expandtab' option, set the 'tabstop' to the
tab increment I wanted, then used 'retab'

:set tabstop=4
:set expandtab
:%retab

Bob Harris