I am a tabs kind of guy, I do not like when my code contains leading whitespaces instead of leading tabs. I often exchange codes with colleagues and I first have to convert the leading whitespaces to tabs manually before doing anything else.Is there a way to search for whitespaces but not tabs in vim? My end goal is to write a script that will convert leading whitespaces to tabs automatically, but an answer to the above question will put me in the right track.
Show leading whitespaces, but not including tabs
search;whitespace;tab characters
/  will search for single space (there's a space after slash)/^ \+ will search for leading whitespaces