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- Path: sparky!uunet!deere!jrh@de.deere.com
- From: jrh@de.deere.com (John R. Howell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Zip tab settings
- Message-ID: <1171@deere.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 17:49:29 GMT
- Sender: usenet@deere.com
- Organization: Deere & Company
- Lines: 18
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- I read in my documentation for zip that tab stops can be set at values
- other than 8 using the .ziprc file. However, that doesn't really change
- the tab size, it still uses 8 character tabs, but will use spaces to
- "fake" a different tab size.
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- I have files that get edited on other machines in addition to the sgi and
- I use a tab size of 4. However, no matter what I put in .ziprc, these
- existing tabs will be displayed as 8 character stops.
-
- Is this correct? Is there anyway around this?
-
- Is there an option that says "whenever I hit the tab key, insert spaces
- to pad to the next tab stop"?
-
- Thanks.
-
- John
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