VIM and tab to space migration

[Graham Dumpleton]

grahamd at dscpl.com.au (Graham Dumpleton) wrote in message news:> I have the following to lines in my .exrc file:
> 
>   map ^Ktu 1G!Gunexpand -a^M
>   map ^Kte 1G!Gexpand^M
> 
> The ^K and ^M are the equivalent control characters.
> 
> I then type ^Ke and it will pipe the whole contents of the file being edited
> through "expand" which will turn all tabs into appropriate number of
> spaces. Typing ^Ku does the opposite.

Whoops, that should read that I type ^Kte and ^Ktu respectively.