Hm, somehow things got left out of my post: first substitution is to replace every TAB character in the file with two spaces.
second substitution is to match lines containing only whitespace characters and remove all said characters leaving only empty lines. Thanks for your prompt reply! Regards, Still-learning Steve -- 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
