7thgroove » Vi/Vim http://www.7thgroove.com/blog Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Changing Tabs to Spaces in Vim http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/changing-tabs-to-spaces-in-vim/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/changing-tabs-to-spaces-in-vim/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:39:27 +0000 Hugh http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/changing-tabs-to-spaces-in-vim/ Boy oh boy, I certainly hate finding tabs in source files I have to work on. While tabs are easy to get rid of (usually automatically) in most modern IDE’s, I often find I have to work remotely on source files using Vi/Vim. Making sure all tabs have been converted to spaces is usually the first thing I do, when working with a new source base …

To convert all tabs to spaces within Vim, use the :retab command like so:
:set expandtab
:%retab

For more info, check out the Vim user documentation: Tabs and spaces section.

h u g h

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