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Sun Jan 3 09:08:24 GMT 2021
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John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
"User" editors usually don't generate HT when the user presses the TAB
key.
Sounds like an opinion, but then so is mine. I'm using (Neo)Vi(m),where whether HTs or spaces are inserted depends upon the format, but iseasily changeable (:set [no]expandtab or :set [no]et). I don't actuallyknow about many other editors. Do you have any data to back this up?I'll go looking myself as well, but if it turns out that HTs areuncommon then we may be able to replace them with 4 spaces (of course,that opens up the question of what happens when the number of spaces ona table line is not a multiple of 4, but we can figure that out).
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