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Re: cutting and pasting from vim to vim expands tabs
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ippi |
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Re: cutting and pasting from vim to vim expands tabs |
Date: |
Mon, 31 May 2004 03:03:16 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi Martin.
--- Martin Bays <address@hidden> wrote:
> If I understand your problem correctly, this is
> nothing to do with Vim.
> Try entering a literal tab at the shell (C-V Tab),
> then copying and
> pasting it with either screen or gpm. In both cases,
> at least when I try
> it, the tab is expanded to spaces.
>
Yup, I'm getting that exact behaviour here!
> I haven't source-dived, but my guess would be that
> both screen and gpm
> have a screen model consisting of a load of 1x1
> character cells, and so
> it "sees" a tab simply as a row of spaces.
Yeah, I think you're probably on the right track.
> In the context of pasting to a Vim buffer though,
> you can always use the
> command ':retab!'.
>
> HTH,
>
Thanks Martin, that's helped a lot - ':retab!' should
sort me out just fine.
ippi
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