At 07:17 21/06/2002 -0400, Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>>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)

EditPlus can handle that nicely..


>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,
>
>Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
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