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xiaomai on Dec 31, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: VIM Destroys All Other Rails Editors

unless you prefer tabs, you can add:

set expandtab

to your .vimrc and then vim will magically insert spaces (according to your tabstop/shiftwidth) instead of real tabs.

:retab will turn all tabs into spaces for a file that already has tabs in it.

10ren on Dec 31, 2009 [–]

thanks! "Vim contains every features you could possibly imagine, and then some. Even when taking this law into account" - 10ren's Law

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