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- From: daniel@brasil.brainstorm.cnam.fr (Daniel Verite)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Which editor for programming?
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 15:35:04 GMT
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- Andreas Mixich (humpty@TOMATE.TNG.OCHE.DE) wrote:
-
- : Tell me, when do you need real TABs ? Programming in Arexx ?
- : No, I do a lot and I never needed "real" tabs.
-
- : Programming in C ? neither, I do this also, and did not need it ever.
-
- : ASM ? Propably the only one I could imagine, that "real" tabs give some
- : comfort, but as you can get the same result for "backspace" on a TAB with
- : Shift-TAB this should be no problem.
-
- You need real tabs at least in GNU makefiles, and also in some
- configure scripts (gnuish again) that carry embedded tabs. Saving
- these kinds of files with GoldEd is equivalent to trashing them, which
- I think is not acceptable for a general purpose editor.
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