> i agree tab handling is imperfect and often frustrating (especially > when working with people who code in variable-width fonts, which, > personally, still seems a bit odd to me) [...]
why? no one reads books in fixed-pitch type. just because teletypes did it, isn't a compelling reason to continue the tradition on bit-mapped displays. part of the reason that 8-space-width tabs (or whatever) seem wide with a fixed-pitch font is that fixed-pitch fonts have to squeeze `W' into the same space as `i.' - erik
