On Jan 5, 2:00 pm, Jeremy Conlin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a text file that I want to put into columns, but I want to use > spaces instead of tabs. Is there an easy (i.e., not manual) way to do > this? A section of the file looks like: > > HEU-MET-FAST-001 1.0000(10) 0.9966(2) 1.0000(1) > HEU-MET-FAST-004 0.9985 0.9948(3) 1.0003(1) > HEU-MET-FAST-007.1 0.9950(24) 0.9901(1) 0.9931(1) > > I want the columns separated where now there is a single space. Can > someone help? >
First, replace all single spaces with tab characters to get them into columns. :%s; ;\t;g Then, set your tabstop to the desired column spacing. For example, :set ts=12 Finally, replace all tabs with an appropriate number of spaces: :set expandtab :retab -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
