On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 11:28:11AM +0930, David Fitch wrote: > I want pasting in vim to use tabs not spaces. > > Everything is fine normally except when I use the mouse > to copy and paste from vim in one terminal to another
I don't think it's anything to do with vim. When the text is copied from the xterm, tabs are converted to spaces. So by the time vim gets it, there are no tabs in the text. > tabs in the original file end up being spaces in the > destination file. How can I stop this happening? > (ie. preserve the tabs) I don't think you can. Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
