Re: Inserting genuine tab character.

Am 2015-09-08 15:42, schrieb LCD 47:
> On 8 September 2015, Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> On 2015-09-08 08:53, John Culleton wrote:
>> > I am building an index for a customer. His publisher insists on the
>> > use of a genuine tab character and not just spaces emulating a tab.
>> >
>> > Can gvim insert a tab character? How?
>>
>> You can either ":set noexpandtab" and have all <tab> characters appear
>> literally, or if you only need it occasionally, you can prefix it with
>> control+V to get a literal tab.
>
> Also, if you change expandtab or tabstop, you can run :ret! to
> re-compute tabs throughout the file. See :h :ret for more information.

You can even automate this task with recent Vim versions:

:au OptionSet tabstop,expandtab if &modifiable|:retab!|endif

(Not that I would advise this, but it is possible).

Best,
Christian

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