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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: newbie problem - how to
Date: 1998/11/10
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dennison@telepath.com writes:

> Unfortunately some (evil) editors actually toss them in on their own on the
> theory that it saves characters.

...which has got to be one of the stupidest data-compression techniques
ever invented!

It takes a little effort to make Emacs eliminate tabs, but it's not that
hard.  But be careful not to untabify any Makefiles!  :-(

- Bob
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Change robert to bob to get my real email address.  Sorry.