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# Tabs To Spaces

If you prefer spaces over tabs in your files, then opening up a file full of tabbed indentation is not ideal. You can quickly convert all tabs in the current buffer to spaces using:

```
:retab
```

This assumes that you have `expandtab` set. See `:help :retab` for more details.