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Show List Of Whitespace And Expand Tabs On VIM
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" answer from http://stackoverflow.com/a/2159997/1406063
" use 4 spaces for tabs
set tabstop=4 softtabstop=4 shiftwidth=4
" display indentation guides
set list listchars=tab:❘-,trail:·,extends:»,precedes:«,nbsp:×
" convert spaces to tabs when reading file
autocmd! bufreadpost * set noexpandtab | retab! 4
" convert tabs to spaces before writing file
autocmd! bufwritepre * set expandtab | retab! 4
" convert spaces to tabs after writing file (to show guides again)
autocmd! bufwritepost * set noexpandtab | retab! 4
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