Question

I am new to VIM, so still learning. The thing I wanna do is instead of using tabs, I wanna to use 2 spaces to replace A tab. I wanna apply this format to my entire java code. How would I do it? Thanks!

Updated I used this following and it worked

:%s/\t/  /

Answer 1

There are many ways of replace tabs with spaces. If you want to use search-and-replace, you need the :s command. Try typing “:help :s” for help. You’ll find that the following works:

:%s/<ctrl-v><tab>/  /g