[Tutor] Spaces and tabs messing up code

[Reed O'Brien]

On Jan 8, 2008, at 7:49 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008, mobiledreamers at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>   my friend uses vim

Small editors for small minds;)

>>
>>   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''

Tell him to use emacs.

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