Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 09:53:35 -0400 From: "Derek (freebsd lists)" <482254ac@razorfever.net> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces Message-ID: <b796e37c-a4c1-71d4-c1fb-f7fe84addadb@chezmarcotte.ca> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <0c30ebf7-e5b1-6fcb-d81e-2a039415f8a1@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2020-05-26 4:54 p.m., Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 14:48, Derek (freebsd lists) > <482254ac@razorfever.net> wrote: >> What is the canonical way to use space indentation in FreeBSD's nvi? >> >> Is there any appetite (from committers) for a patch/import of the >> feature from OpenBSD? > > After careful checking, the expandtab option was introduced to NetBSD first: > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2008/12/10/msg001482.html > > by Luke Mewburn and probably backported to OpenBSD later. This has > never gone (I think) into FreeBSD base Great read by the way. Thanks for sharing! Commentary is... as expected? I can't push that hard.
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