Re: vim + printing = wretched output
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 08:36:10AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 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.
>
My tab stop is set to 3 (for coding). Indenting 8 spaces per tab in code
is just wasteful. Anything I can do to get around this?
Bill
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