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From emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au (Wendigo)
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Subject: How to map! the tab character in VI
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Date: 1 Jun 92 06:52:12 GMT
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How would one map the tab character in vi using the ":map!" command?
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Thanx
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--
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Wendigo [ Occasionally thought of as |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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emm@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au ] | "This isn't science fiction,
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{ Sometimes answers to Evan McLean } | this is StarTrek!"
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(Now employed, no thanks to the government)| -- Shelia Willis
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From sti@cs.hut.fi (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
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Subject: Re: Mapping <tab> in Vi
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Reply-To: Sami.Tikka@hut.fi
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 08:27:52 GMT
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In article <1992Jun2.113530.19567@sci.kun.nl> hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
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> you might want to look at the possibility of map!ping <tab> to <control-V>
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> and setting shiftwidth to your preferred indent.
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I believe the button producing right mix of tabs and spaces is
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<control-T> not <control-V> as you said. But that was probably a
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typo...
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--
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Sami.Tikka@hut.fi $@%5%_%F%#%C%+(J "LiveFrom jutta@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Jutta Degner)
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Subject: Re: Mapping <tab> in Vi
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Date: Fri, 29 May 1992 21:47:05 GMT
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brecht@white.toronto.edu (Tim Brecht) writes:
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> Can anyone tell me how to [..] map! <tab> <number of blank characters>
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Some characters are special to vi and must be quoted. To quote, prefix
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with <CTRL>V (^V in short). If that doesn't work -- this is the case for
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both tab and space -- double the ^V.
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you type: map! ^V^V<tab> ^V^V<space>^V^V<space>^V^V<space>
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you see: map! ^V<tab> ^V<space>^V<space>^V<space>
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Maybe you wont be happy with this, though. To correctly expand tabs,
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they must be replaced by tabstop - index % tabstop blanks; and although
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it may be possible to painstakingly implement this function in vi, it's
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just _so_ much easier to simply call
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:%!expand
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and leave the work to a tool that was written to do it.
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--Jutta
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From buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen)
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Subject: Re: Mapping <tab> in Vi
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Date: Fri, 29 May 92 22:21:13 GMT
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Tim Brecht writes:
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>This has likely been discussed before but ...
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Yes, around october last year and february and march this year :-)
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>Can anyone tell me how to map the <tab> key to output
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>some number of blank characters instead ?
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>Note that changing tabstop isn't sufficient.
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>I want to be able to create a file that does not contain
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>any tab characters even though I use the tab key when
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>creating the file. It seems to be mainly a problem of
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>how to escape the blank characters (and possibly the tab).
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>map! <tab> <number of blank characters>
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You should perhaps have consulted the VI archive (If you read the FAQ
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this is known).
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Also stay tuned for the next 96 hours to see the FAQ for June :-)
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>From one of the INDEX files at the VI/EX archives around the world:
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ced.tips.1.Z Comp.Editors tips collection. October 91 issue.
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ced.tips.5.Z Comp.Editors tips collection. February 92 issue.
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ced.tips.6.Z Comp.Editors tips collection. March 92 issue.
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This threee files will deal with the TAB/SPC's in greater length.
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The VI/EX archives can be found at:
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Europe:
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Main site: alf.uib.no (129.177.30.3)
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Filearea: pub/lpf/misc
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Peak hours: 07.00 am GMT to 03.00 pm GMT
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Japan:
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Mirror site: utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (133.11.11.11)
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Filearea: misc/vi
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Peak hours: 01.00 am GMT to 09.00 am GMT
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USA, Canada and Mexico:
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Mirror site: cs.uwp.edu (131.210.1.4)
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Filearea: /pub/vi
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Peak hours: None.
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Australia, NZ and the rest Down Under:
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Main site: monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (130.194.1.106)
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Filearea: /pub/Vi
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Peak hours: Not relevent
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For more information about the files at the archives and the archives
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itself, please read one of the FAQ for Comp.Editors.
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If you are in a hurry you may fetch the INDEX file.
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If you need more information, you are welcome to mail Ove.R.Olsen@uib.no.
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\Ruben.
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Ove Ruben R Olsen, Professional VI user. EMAIL: Ove.R.Olsen@ubb.uib.no
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Maintaining the Largest VI/EX-STUFF Archive in the WORLD (alf.uib.no) and
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the Comp.Editors FAQ file. If yo |