HOW DO I MAKE VI'S AUTOINDENT N

[milos at inmet.UUCP]

This is all well and good for creating new files or editing existing
files that were created with tabstop=70. It is not, however, the way
to go if you are editing files that were created with more typical
tabstop settings, e.g., tabstop=8. In such cases, the only reasonable
solution (as identified in another note addressing this subject) is to
run the source file through "expand" to eliminate the undesired tabs;
unfortunately, this has the potentially undesirable side-effect of
making the source file appear to have undergone more changes than
necessary -- not nice if you're dealing with SCCS/RCS.