nvi expandtab - tabs to spaces

[Derek (freebsd lists)]

On 2020-05-26 2:09 p.m., Derek (freebsd lists) wrote:
> On 2020-05-26 12:48 p.m., matthew at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>> Or use expand(1) from the command line...
>>
> 
> That's what I'm looking for, thank you.  No external dependencies.  I'll 
> just change my muscle memory around.
> 
> Gratitude.
> 

I guess I should add for posterity, you can do in vi:

:<range>!expand -t <width>

So:

:.,.+6!expand -t 4

takes the current and the following 6 lines, and converts the tabs to 4 
spaces.

:%!expand

will convert the whole buffer to 8-space tabs.

Thanks again!