> Bill > > Vim supports several options to munge tabs in various ways. One is > "expandtab", which will replace each TAB character with the number of > spaces defined by "tabstop". But this replaces the TAB, which may not > be what some people want. > > See also "softtabstop", which will "simulate" a tabstop setting without > actually changing tabstop itself, using a combination of spaces and tabs > to generate the indentation. For instance, if "set softtabstop=4" is > used (with tabstop=8), the first indent is 4 spaces, the second a tab, > the third a tab and 4 spaces, etc. <snip>
Bob, The softtabstop is exactly what I needed. I reset the tabstop to 8, set the softtabstop to 3 and edited a test file. When I less or more it it looks the same as it does when I'm editing the file. Thanks a ton for that hint. Even though it took me another hour or so to re-edit my file and fix those tabs it is well worth it because I just love vim. Again, thanks. Bill
