On 16/09/12 19:54, Tim Johnson wrote:
* Bee <[email protected]> [120916 09:09]:
On Sep 16, 9:43 am, Tim Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi :
Is there a way to apply the expand/retab process to a visual
selection?
:h ??
thanks
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Tim
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:help :retab
:[range]ret[ab][!]
[new_tabstop]
<blush> I shoulda asked for an example.
If I do the following
v " start visual mode
jjjj " select 4 more lines
:retab " nothing
:retab! " nothing
What else need I do?
thanks
When you type : in Visual mode, you should see
:'<,'>
where '< means "the first visually selected line" and '> means "the last
visually selected line". Don't erase these marks as you type :retab in
Visual mode. Or you could do without Visual mode, as follows:
:set expandtab
5:retab
(that second line will be expanded to :.,.+4retab and it should expand
tabs to spaces in the current line and the 4 following ones). Or
:set noexpandtab
5:retab!
to convert spaces to tabs instead.
See
:help v_:
:help N:
Best regards,
Tony.
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