Re: AdaGIDE 7.42 and tabs

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:53:06 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> 
>>> No chance to separate indentation from source HTs?
>> 
>> Not that I'm aware of. Do you have sources with tabs for other than 
>> indentation?
>
> Sure, all of them in fact. Indentation = 3, HT = 8.
>
> It worked satisfactory in earlier versions of AdaGIDE. Or, maybe, I just
> haven't noticed anything wrong. But now indentation seems to be expanded as
> 1 HT, when set to 3 spaces. Clearly 1*8 /= 3! So when the file gets opened
> in another editor, the result is a total mess.

I don't believe there is any sort of actual _standard_ that says HT =
column mod 8. 

On some old mechanical typewriters, you could set mechanical tab stops
where ever you wanted, to make typing tables etc easiser. Early
printers also had configurable tab stops (not mechanical).

Good editors also have configurable tab stops. 

But the only portable way to use tab stops is to insert spaces, not HT.

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