tabs in vi

[Christopher F. Bryden]

In article <7901 at ardent.UUCP> landay at ardent.com (James A. Landay) writes:
}Is there a way to make it so that when ever I hit the TAB key
}in 'vi' that I get 4 spaces rather than an actual tab?  I would
}rather not have to run expand after running vi, as I would only
}want to do that if I actually changed the file.

This isn't what you want to know, but...
:%s/\	/\ \ \ \ /g
      ^   ^ ^ ^ ^
     tab   four spaces
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