Re: expanding tabs in a visual selection

On 16/09/12 19:54, Tim Johnson wrote:
> * Bee <forth@calcentral.com> [120916 09:09]:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 16, 9:43 am, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
>>> Hi :
>>>
>>> Is there a way to apply the expand/retab process to a visual
>>> selection?
>>>
>>> :h ??
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> --
>>> Tim
>>> tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot comhttp://www.akwebsoft.com
>>
>>
>> :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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