Is it really that hard to search and replace a tab with four spaces? %s/\t/ /g should do it in Vim. Make it /gc if you have tabs in your code for some

Is it really that hard to search and replace a tab with four spaces? %s/\t/ /g should do it in Vim. Make it /gc if you have tabs in your code for some reason. If it's really hacked up, then a source code beautifier might be a better bet: http://www.google.com.au/search?q=python+source+code+beautifier http://www.google.com.au/search?q=python+source+code+beautif... The alternative is to have wild, all over the place indenting in languages like PHP. Except that the code will still run, so nobody will fix it.