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I hit <RETURN> too quickly...

There's also vim's ":retab" command.

-ernie

On 7/2/2015 4:14 PM, Richard Heintze wrote:
> There used to be a very handy cygwin program called expand for expanding tabs into spaces.
>
> Now I cannot find it on the nice installation GUI (setup_x86_64.exe).
>
> I tried searching the archives for it but there were too many hits for other topics ("expand" is a common word, apparently).
>
> Has this been superseded by a better program?
> Has it been taken away? I hope not!
>
> How can I get a command line interface for expanding tabs into spaces that I can easily use from VI?
> Thanks
> Siegfried
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