Re: [Rosegarden-devel] tabs and spaces

[Vince N. <vin...@gm...>]

> > What's the easiest way to untabify all the existing files?  Is there an=
y
> > way to do this on commit, at the SourceForge side?
>
> With vim you can
>
> :set expandtabs
>
> I think.  Something like that.  I recall trying to do this to lilypondio.=
cpp
> and changing all the tabs to spaces, and bringing about holy wrath in as =
a
> result.

Putting my Vim guru hat on for a moment, here are the mystic incantations
required to fix up files without upsetting the indenting.

If you have a file that uses 4 spaces per indent level, but 8 spaces per ta=
b
(in vim this is ts=3D8 sts=3D4 shiftwidth=3D4)

Then you do the following:

:set ts=3D8 sts=3D4 shiftwidth=3D4
   (tell vim about current file structure)

:set expandtab
   (you want to use spaces for tabs from now on)

:retab
   (note the pling - redo all the SOL whitespace to conform to the new sett=
ings)

:wq
   (save changes)

You could use the ability of vim to run in batch mode to automate this.