At 12:14 -0700 9/19/11, Watts Martin wrote, and I snipped:
>People who want variable tab stops don't want to have a filter applied after 
>the fact to line up text in columns using spaces or a mix of fixed-width 
>spaces and tabs; they want tab stops, like a word processor. That is, you can 
>set a tab stop at column 20 and column 30, and then type 
>"One<tab>Two<tab>Three" and have "Two" and "Three" display at column 20 and 30 
>respectively -- but there remains just a single tab character between the 
>words.
>
>BBEdit's scripting/filtering is powerful, but I think supporting that actually 
>requires a change to BBEdit's code.

And, in the world of X-code it likely requires overriding of Apple-provided 
text manipulation classes and methods.

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