jmr@motown.UUCP (20 John M. Ritter) (10/16/87)
I'm happy to see solutions to all these vi questions, especially
considering all of the multiple ^V's you have to use, but the one
thing that's been bothering me for quite sometime is:
Is there a way to set arbitrary tabs within vi?
I'd like to set my hardware tabs on the terminal to say, 8, 12, 14, 16
and 45. Then, within vi, pressing <TAB> will take me to the next
hardware set tabstop.
To compound matters, all white space must be filled with *spaces*.
There can't be any ^I's between, say 16 and 45.
This has been a problem with vi, especially with autoindent -- you
*always* get ^I's -- well, what if I don't want to be that
efficient!!???
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