Re: expanding tabs in a visual selection

* Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> [120916 11:02]:
>
> 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
Elegant!

> (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!
Again ...
> to convert spaces to tabs instead.
>
> See
> :help v_:
> :help N:
thanks
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Tim
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http://www.akwebsoft.com

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