Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 14:58:34 -0400 From: "Derek (freebsd lists)" <482254ac@razorfever.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces Message-ID: <3cb01e2e-a77a-da31-fe4f-65d3a4584d59@chezmarcotte.ca> In-Reply-To: <778c15db-ab60-4856-b08a-479adfafaedf@chezmarcotte.ca> References: <0c30ebf7-e5b1-6fcb-d81e-2a039415f8a1@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAEJNuHyDc%2B1hgg_UwDzuu=eskf-DhhoKU%2BjuF3LUL%2B2qQ919HQ@mail.gmail.com> <c736fc5f-3a12-6d8a-1830-df44b74b2dfb@chezmarcotte.ca> <CAD1r1D%2Bm%2BUQ=ECS=wCsKt5684buoE-LfnGqhy%2BiyxB=VdqiPfw@mail.gmail.com> <CAEJNuHw4fWBUP6Htutrv7RywBkxRfr2o4cFo7v6e0UxNfjgoEQ@mail.gmail.com> <bc251662-9588-6e2d-74c1-76df1829c214@infracaninophile.co.uk> <778c15db-ab60-4856-b08a-479adfafaedf@chezmarcotte.ca>
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On 2020-05-26 2:09 p.m., Derek (freebsd lists) wrote: > On 2020-05-26 12:48 p.m., matthew@FreeBSD.org wrote: >> Or use expand(1) from the command line... >> > > That's what I'm looking for, thank you. No external dependencies. I'll > just change my muscle memory around. > > Gratitude. > I guess I should add for posterity, you can do in vi: :<range>!expand -t <width> So: :.,.+6!expand -t 4 takes the current and the following 6 lines, and converts the tabs to 4 spaces. :%!expand will convert the whole buffer to 8-space tabs. Thanks again!
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