Am 22.06.2008 um 11:41 schrieb John Leuner:

What do you use a teletype for?

John

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype

SCNR,

- Bert -

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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