Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 15:53:31 -0000 (UTC) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Substituting horizontal tab characters in vi Message-ID: <slrnr1bunr.2ph0.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <61189.1577922242@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On 2020-01-01, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > Quiet simply, it used to be possible to use vi to make substitutions for > horizontal tab characters, say for example in the current line, by just > typing : (colon) to get to the vi "command prompt" and then typing "s" > (substitute command) followed by some delimiter, e.g. forward slash, > and then just hitting the tab key on my keyboard, followed by a closing > delimiter and then my substitution text followed by yet another closing > delimiter. The tab character is the default setting for the filec (file path completion) option. To disable this feature, set filec to an empty string: set filec="" See vi(1), filec. The default setting changed from empty to tab with the update to nvi-2. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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