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Re: display of TAB character
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: display of TAB character |
Date: |
27 Nov 2003 08:45:17 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:15:35 +0100 (MET)
> From: georg1000@gmx.de
>
> In http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Jamie Zawinski
> writes concerning the display of the TAB character:
>
> A third interpretation is for the ASCII TAB character to mean
> ``indent to the next tab stop,'' where the tab stops are set
> arbitrarily: they might not necessarily be equally distanced from
> each other. Most word processors can do this;
> Emacs can do this. I don't think vi can do this, but I'm not sure.
>
> I was unable to find out how to do this.
How did you look? I typed "i tab stops" in the Emacs manual and was
immediately placed in the section which explains how to set the tab
stops. I think that's what Jamie meant in the quoted fragment, but
I'm not sure if this does what you want. Does it?