LuKreme wrote:
For example, if I have a unix style directory listing of ls -ls that
I want in tab-delimited lines I would like the first tab stop to be
at say 12 characters, the second to be at 30, the third to be at 8,
etc.
Out of curiosity, how many other text editors -- not word processors,
but plain text editors like BBEdit -- have this functionality? The very
few I can find that have settable tab stops like Emacs and VDE evidently
allow this to let you make pretty tables in plain text, but they do
*not* insert a single hard tab character -- rather a mix of tabs and
spaces or just spaces so the ASCII text is aligned correctly.
I'm not clear from Doug McNutt's earlier message whether what BBEdit was
"useless" for was the "insert a single hard tab between columns"
described above, which indeed most text editors would be lousy at but
most word processors would not, or what he needs to do is to set
space-filled columnar data in the way of an old punch card, i.e.:
[-field-][---------field---------][---field---]
text more text starting here other text
foobar walla walla bing bang 23skidoo
...which BBEdit could do, just not as conveniently as Emacs. Which is
not an oft-used phrase. :) (Although it would probably be fairly easy to
write a text filter to transform delimited text to that after the fact.)
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