Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 10:27:21 +0200 From: Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com> To: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> Cc: freeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: OT: vim, was: nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces Message-ID: <CADqw_g%2BCZBtiJ5J87ANY2XXF4gT-7rggN=AWnQz-JQci7VxxWA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEJNuHwkj325k7wVeb4NMv8k3hgYX-n=3NCBE7%2B7LQnscQj%2BEw@mail.gmail.com> References: <0c30ebf7-e5b1-6fcb-d81e-2a039415f8a1@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAEJNuHy=5TvqDSo880na%2B0my5T_y1fmtF4ebtp_%2Br0UB0J24MQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200527041008.GD95043@mithril> <CAEJNuHwkj325k7wVeb4NMv8k3hgYX-n=3NCBE7%2B7LQnscQj%2BEw@mail.gmail.com>
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just one thing: it's not "set retab", but ":retab" (a command) On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:24 AM Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions < freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 05:10, Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd@foucry.net> > wrote: > > > > Le mardi 26 mai 2020 =C3=A0 21:54:10 (+0100), Ottavio Caruso via > freebsd-questions =C3=A0 =C3=A9crit: > > > > > > Hello friends, > > > > > On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 14:48, Derek (freebsd lists) > > > <482254ac@razorfever.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hiya, > > > > > > > > After all these years, I'm finally wanting to switch tabs to spaces > for > > > > certain documents (yaml comes to mind, python another), but I'm > finding > > > > the FreeBSD nvi lacks expandtab, yet OpenBSD's (as of 6.7) supports > this > > > > option. > > > > > > > > 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. If one wants to make a port > > > out of it, they can look at the pkgsrc port: > > > https://pkgsrc.se/editors/nvi > > > > > > and adjust Makefile, etc. > > > > > > Note that the $HOMEPAGE is 404 and the distfile is cached somewhere o= n > > > the NetBSD servers. > > > > Not sure to =E3=84=A9nderstand the problem. > > Yes, because you need to read the thread from the start. > > > > > Octavio want to switch tab to spaces in it's sources files. > > Actually, it's a NetBSD patch. > > > He use nvi (I > > don't, I use vim) and expandtab seems to not work. > > > > I =D8=A5ad the same issur with vim and discover the :retab command whic= h > actually > > does visualy the expandtab job. > > > > The sequesce is: > > <esc>:expantab > > <esc>:retab > > I use the latest vim and I don't have retab: > : set retab? > E518: Unknown option: retab? > > > > > Again I don't use nvi but I thingk that's could be =C3=A6 solution. > > > > Please execuse me if I am out of goal and my intervention is not in the > > subjet. > > As above ^. > > -- > Ottavio Caruso > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion'
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