Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

From: Nori Heikkinen (nori_at_sccs.swarthmore.edu)
Date: 10/10/03

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    dman, you rock as usual.

    on Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:33:17PM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson insinuated:
    > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 09:48:34AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
    > | hey all,
    > |
    > | this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most
    > | likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be
    > | opinionated about it.
    > |
    > | i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was
    > | originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't work
    > | with hard tabs, and so managed to reformat the entire thing to use
    > | spaces (basically a "s,^I, ," iirc) before i began my massive
    > | overhaul of this file.
    >
    > Read ":help retab". It is so much nicer :-).

    i just did -- and should have to begin with. awesome.

    > | now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line to
    > | show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need to find
    > | a good solution on how to transform my indents back into tab
    > | characters. clearly the reverse -- "s, ,^I," -- won't just work, as
    > | there are places where two spaces exist that i wouldn't want a tab.
    >
    > :set noet sts=2 sw=2 ts=2
    > :retab!

    oh, so that's what the ! is about at the end of retab ...

    very cool, and exactly what i was asking for.

    turns out my original file wasn't quite in the format i thought it
    was, but knowing these tricks, i was able to reformat and re-check-in
    the original before committing the changes. very clean.

    thanks a lot to all who responded!

    </nori> 

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