On 7/5/05, Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew McNabb wrote: > > They all have the same tab stop value: 8 characters. > > > > Look at the following lines: > > this is a test 1 > > this is another test 2 > > here is yet another test 3 > > > > Those numbers won't line up if you don't have it printing at 8 > > characters. > > So do I understand correctly that it's a standard convention for tabs to > be hard-coded at 8 characters? If so, it looks like I'll just have to > learn to live with it. :)
Or whine and complain about how tabs are evil[1] to the creators of these files that have tabs in them. Or maybe there is a nifty utility somewhere to convert tabs to a configurable number of spaces in a text file. Bryan 1. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TabsAreEvil -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/
