From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: display of TAB character
Date: 27 Nov 2003 08:45:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uekvujon6.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16848.1069888535@www46.gmx.net> (georg1000@gmx.de)
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:15:35 +0100 (MET)
> From: georg1000@gmx.de
>
> In http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Jamie Zawinski
> writes concerning the display of the TAB character:
>
> A third interpretation is for the ASCII TAB character to mean
> ``indent to the next tab stop,'' where the tab stops are set
> arbitrarily: they might not necessarily be equally distanced from
> each other. Most word processors can do this;
> Emacs can do this. I don't think vi can do this, but I'm not sure.
>
> I was unable to find out how to do this.
How did you look? I typed "i tab stops" in the Emacs manual and was
immediately placed in the section which explains how to set the tab
stops. I think that's what Jamie meant in the quoted fragment, but
I'm not sure if this does what you want. Does it?
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2003-11-26 23:15 display of TAB character georg1000
2003-11-27 6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2003-12-17 20:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-12-24 11:57 ` Georg Wittig
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