Replace tabs with spaces in vim

vi, vim

Solution

IIRC, something like:

set tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab

should do the trick. If you already have tabs, then follow it up with a nice global RE to replace them with double spaces.

If you already have tabs you want to replace,

:retab

Problem

I would like to convert tab to spaces in gVim. I added the following line to my `_vimrc`: ``` set tabstop=2 ``` It works to stop at two spaces but it still looks like one tab key is inserted (I tried to use the h key to count spaces afterwards). I'm not sure what should I do to make gVim convert tabs to spaces?

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