Here's a quick way to convert a tab-stopped file to a space-formatted file.
:set expandtab
:retab!
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Is there a built-in way (other than to search/replace groups of spaces) to convert n spaces into tabs?
Note: not interested in the ensuing flame war about using tabs vs. spaces.
Last I looked, "retab" was what turned tabs into spaces.
:set noexpandtab
:retab!
will turn spaces into tabs. (It's not perfect -- a single space won't be replaced with a tab even if it would match up with the tabstop -- but it's really useful.)
Me, I use 4-space "tabs". :-)
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