hey all, this is kind of off-topic, but i figured this is the community most likley to have dealt with this sort of thing in the past, and be opinionated about it.
i've been editing a lot of code over the past few months that was
originally saved to disk with hard tabs for indenting. i can't work
with hard tabs, and so managed to reformat the entire thing to use
spaces (basically a "s,^I, ," iirc) before i began my massive
overhaul of this file.
now it's time to check it into CVS. i don't want every single line to
show up as different just because of tab characters, so i need to find
a good solution on how to transform my indents back into tab
characters. clearly the reverse -- "s, ,^I," -- won't just work, as
there are places where two spaces exist that i wouldn't want a tab.
is there some way to open the file in emacs (in which i assumer it was
originally written; i use vim) and run it through a re-indentder with
hard tabs on? or could i do this in vim?
suggestions & opinions welcome. thanks a lot,
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