I prefer vim. It works with windows or any flavor of unix, does syntax
highlighting, split screen for multiple file edits, has a file/directory
explorer and is extenedable with
vim functions
python functions
perl functions
tcl functions
ruby functions
all of which can be compiled into the editor so you can created edit functions
in your favorite language.
and best of all (for the purposes of this discussion):
:help retab
Replace all sequences of white-space containing a
<Tab> with new strings of white-space using the new
tabstop value given. If you do not specify a new
tabstop size, Vim uses the current value of 'tabstop'.
The current value of 'tabstop' is always used to
compute the width of existing tabs.
With !, Vim also replaces strings of only normal
spaces with tabs where appropriate.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I don't wish to start an editor war on this list, just to point out vim will
convert spaces to tabs and vice-versa. There's a gui version (gvim) as well as
a terminal based version. Check out a recent beta of the 6.0 release. It is
very mature now up to 6.0ar.
Check it out at www.vim.org or vim.sourceforge.net
fdj
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 01:56:34PM -0500, Ian Bicking wrote:
> A dumb editor like pico (i.e., one for which all files are plain text)
> doesn't care, and tabs are easy enough -- well, as long as you know
> what the current file uses... god forbid you edit some code and use a
> tab where spaces are called for or visa versa. If you do that you're
> asking for a world of pain.
>
--
fdj
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