Re: [vile] Identation/trailing spacing

[Michael Tiernan]

On 6/10/14 6:02 AM, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> In vim there is a thing such as list/listchars [1] to reveal these
> differences (or special characters for that matter).  Is there something
> like that in vile?  Or would that require a filter on top of an syntax
> filter?
>
The simplelist approach would be:
  :set list
which will show you all the characters, even hidden ones.

To clear the trailing whitespace:
  ^ATg
That will apply the "trim trailing whitespace" function globally and
nuke all the annoying crud.

To fix the space/tab thing, say the original spacing was "intended" to
be five spaces, you can then set the following:
  :set sw=5 ts=5
Then, use:
  ^ACTRL-Ig
which will then change all space/tab filled indents to one tab set at
"ts" characters.

That won't do it all for you but it will definatly clear about 80% for you.

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