Re: How to display and copy tabs as tabs in GTK env?

BPJ <[email protected]>
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Den lör 26 okt. 2024 07:10Taka <[email protected]> skrev:

> On Friday, October 25, 2024 at 7:16:30 AM UTC-7 BPJ wrote:
>
> Sorry, making a fool of myself, that should be
> :setl list
> and
> :setl nolist
> I blame Friday afternoon! :-)
>
>
> 🤔 so display the listchars and then don't display the listchars?
> This helps in that the listchars marks are not copied/pasted, but tabs are
> still printed and copied/pasted as spaces...
> Here ya go ☕☕☕ 😉
>

The important part is the `noexpandtabs` which you apparently missed. The
`listchars` was only meant to make the difference visible. BTW you may also
want `:retab!` to convert already existing runs of spaces to tabs and/or
`:setl ts=4` (or 2) to make the real tabs take up less screen real estate.


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