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On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:47:31 +0800, "Mr. Man-wai Chang"
<toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 19/6/2017 9:19 AM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> 
>> What about setting up the single press of the tab key to insert n 
>> spaces? ;^)
>
>It's called a keyboard macro, well-known in the world computer gaming 
>keyboards and mouses. :)
>

I seem to recall it being a standard option in the editor our
programmers used, something like "Fill tabs with spaces y/N"


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AnthonyL