Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> and many programs (e.g. cat) assume a tab every 8 spaces.

Are you seriously using an editor for actual work, that does not even
have have a configurable tab length?

> I'm sure some vi guru will have a magic solution

My editor has that one configurable too on saving the file.

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