Re: cutting and pasting from vim to vim expands tabs

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Hi Martin.

--- Martin Bays <address@hidden> wrote:
> If I understand your problem correctly, this is
> nothing to do with Vim.
> Try entering a literal tab at the shell (C-V Tab),
> then copying and
> pasting it with either screen or gpm. In both cases,
> at least when I try
> it, the tab is expanded to spaces.
>

Yup, I'm getting that exact behaviour here!
 
> I haven't source-dived, but my guess would be that
> both screen and gpm
> have a screen model consisting of a load of 1x1
> character cells, and so
> it "sees" a tab simply as a row of spaces. 

Yeah, I think you're probably on the right track.

> In the context of pasting to a Vim buffer though,
> you can always use the
> command ':retab!'.
> 
> HTH,
> 

Thanks Martin, that's helped a lot - ':retab!' should
sort me out just fine.

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