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Re: vim + printing = wretched output



On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:43AM -0500, William Jensen (jensenb@charter.net) wrote:
> Hey guys, has anyone run into bad printing with vim?
> 
> I spend a few hours editing some notes for class and when I lpt <file> the
> spacing was terrible.  It's like more/less/lpr treat the tabs/spaces in vim
> totally different.  I also tried printing from within vim with :%w !lpr but
> it had the same affect.  How can I make vim print out exactly as it looks
> when I'm editing the file?  Or, cringe, do I need to go to emacs?

What's your 'ts' (tabstop) setting in vim?  If it's anything but 8,
you'll have a difference of opinion between it and most of the rest of
the world.

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