Use the Brief editor. It has a global (file scope) replace that accepts the
tab key as a character to replace. Replace with four space chars.

Uri


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From: "Jinx" <joecolquitt@CLEAR.NET.NZ>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: coding style


> > I personally prefer spaces and no tabs. Why? because there is
> > no standard tab spacing, but 8 is the most common. However,
> > if you display your 4-space tabs as 8-space tabs, the document
> > will look very messy. (Not to mention, the piclist archive of your
> > tabbed files will look horrible)
>
> Nothing more tedious than removing all the tabs from a piece of
> someone's code so you can do a half-decent printout or fit the
> routine into your own screen format
>
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