Re: untabifying and local-variable for Emacs

[Michael Godfrey]

On 02/11/2010 12:10 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

Also, does anyone know if there is a way to tell vi (vim?  I'm not sure
what the most common variants are now) to not insert tabs in the
Octave source files,

For vi and vim, use
set expandtab

This can go in the .vimrc file for both vi and vim

Also, I use gedit more these days.  In this case you
click on preferences and set "replace tab with spaces."

Michael