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- From: kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com (Kevin Rodgers)
- Subject: Re: TAB characters (was Re: Need help with TABith TABS)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.151344.9558@den.mmc.com>
- Keywords: emacs, TABS, PASCAL
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- References: <1992Sep10.002725.562@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> <BuCHyu.GzG.1@cs.cmu.edu> <1992Sep10.194734.23894@bcars6a8.bnr.ca>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:13:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.194734.23894@bcars6a8.bnr.ca> keithh@bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan) writes:
- >In article <BuCHyu.GzG.1@cs.cmu.edu> rudis+@cs.cmu.edu (Rujith S DeSilva) writes:
- >>Does this mean that you want saved files to have TAB characters, but want
- >>spaces while editing? If so, why bother to have TABs at all?
- >
- >No, I want tab characters in my files so that hitting hitting tab
- >and then backspace (rubout) results in no change. Editors which
- >convert tabs to spaces are frustrating because the backspace only
- >rubs out the final space, instead of all the spaces used to
- >replace the tab.
-
- Why don't you just make sure that backspace/delete (whichever you use)
- is bound to delete-backward-char, instead of delete-backward-char-
- untabify. It seems the former is the default global binding, but that
- some modes bind that key locally to the latter.
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