[Tutor] Spaces and tabs messing up code

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008, mobiledreamers at gmail.com wrote:
>
>   my friend uses vim
>
>   and i use xemacs
>
>   so our shared python code is a mix of tabs and spaces and it is hard
>   for him to edit it in vim
>
>   any idea on how to make it clean
>
>   convert it all to 4 spaces?

Do that, and in his ~/.vimrc file, add a line ``set expandtab''

(Friends don't let friends use emacs :-).

Bill
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