So I've written some code of an assignment and i forgot the universities polocy of indent with 2spaces.
Normally I'ld have put a: vim: ts=2:tw=2: et:
at the top of my files, but this time i forgot.
How should I go about replacing all tabs with 2 space? would s// work? (repalcing and with the respectiove characters.
How should I go about replacing all tabs with 2 space?
You can do
:%s/\t/ /g
You should have a look at retab.
First set tabstop, shiftwidth and expandtab, then use the retab command: it will reformat all your file with the desired format.
Run the following commands:
:set expandtab tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 softtabstop=2
:retab!
Check out my screencast on tidying whitespace here: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/tidying-whitespace/.