diff --git a/init.fold-text.vim b/init.fold-text.vim
index a80b900..a8994b1 100644
--- a/init.fold-text.vim
+++ b/init.fold-text.vim
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ function! MyFoldText()
   " don't display vim comment quotation marks
   " TODO other comment markers
   let l:line = substitute(l:line, "\^\"\\s\\?", '', '')
+  " TODO replace spaces with tabs if appropriate
+
+  " replace tabs with spaces if expandtab
+  if &expandtab == 0
+	  let l:tabwidth = &tabstop
+	  let l:tabspace = '                           '[1:l:tabwidth]
+	  let  l:line = substitute(l:line, '	', l:tabspace, 'g')
+  endif
 
   " let l:postfix = l:linecount . ' ' . substitute(v:folddashes, '-', '•', 'g')
   let l:postfix = l:linecount . ' ' . substitute(v:folddashes, '-', '↓', 'g')