What do you use a teletype for?
John
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:45 -0700, Ian Piumarta wrote:
> Set your tabs stops every eight columns and the source will be
> aligned properly.
>
> I like the tabs in the source because I can move around indented
> lines faster (and the file is a few bytes shorter). I also like
> braces lined up like this
>
> if (foo)
> {
> bar();
> }
>
> which would mean a tab width of 2 to make everything be tabbist -
> which might just as well stay as spaces. (But tabs every 2 would
> also make the source almost immediately run off the right hand edge
> when viewed on my teletype, with its tabs hard-wired at every eighth
> column, not to mention the cacophony of bell ringing that would ensue
> every time it reached the margin set 10 spaces before the right-hand
> edge of the paper.)
>
> FWIW, I don't do anything special to Emacs (which I use when away
> from my teletype) to get this behaviour - tabs every eight, and
> compressing multiple spaces into single tab characters when possible,
> is the default behaviour. Works for me, but then I still think of my
> computer as a typewriter - with pretty colours and unlimited built-in
> tippex.
>
> Spaced-out people should refer to expand(1).
>
> HTH,
> Ian
>
>
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