Converts tabs to spaces, or spaces to tabs, and provides a "super retab" command to convert only the whitespace used for indentation in programs.
This is a mirror of VimTip1592
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| Space2Tab | Convert spaces to tabs, only in indents. |
| Tab2Space | Convert tabs to spaces, only in indents. |
| RetabIndent | Execute Space2Tab (if expandtab is set), or Tab2Space (otherwise). |
- The commands allow an argument to specify the column width; if none is given, the
tabstopsetting is used. - Redundant spaces in an indent are removed (in the above mapping, converting tabs to spaces will not change lines where there is a space before a tab in the indent).
- The search history is not changed (pressing n will do the same search it would have done before the conversion was performed).
- The cursor position is restored, although the column will be slightly wrong owing to the different number of characters in the indent.