>Nobody really uses decent editors? Any half-decent one should
>have a function to replace tabs with [the selected number of]
>spaces...

This DOES NOT work to preserve formatting- the tabs are usually
in FIXED evenly-spaced positions across the line (in word-
processing programs you can usually make them non-evenly-spaced.

The tab character means to go to the next fixed position, which
may be one space or many. Replacing the tab character with a
fixed number of spaces will destroy the formatting in almost
every case (including PIC assembler code)

But, yes, a good editor should have commands for dealing with
that as well as *nix/PC issues etc. Vanilla IDE editors tend
not to, so you keep one good editor around, no big deal.

Best regards,

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