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Re: Display tables and `tabify'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Display tables and `tabify' |
Date: |
Sun, 15 Apr 2001 20:16:20 +0300 |
> From: Samuel Padgett <samuel.padgett@gte.net>
> Date: 15 Apr 2001 10:29:41 -0400
>
> > My wording was unclear; sorry. By ``visual appearance'' I meant the
> > visual appearence of the text indentation. In other words, `tabify'
> > preserves the display column of each non-whitespace character. Thus,
> > the capital `T' is left at column 4, as it was before `tabify'.
>
> Yes, if this is what `tabify' is supposed to do, then it's not a bug.
> My question then: Is this what `tabify' _should_ do?
It looks like that. The doc string of `tabify' says:
Convert multiple spaces in region to tabs when possible.
A group of spaces is partially replaced by tabs
when this can be done without changing the column they end at.
The Emacs manual says:
There are also commands to convert tabs to spaces or vice versa,
always preserving the columns of all nonblank text. `M-x tabify' scans
the region for sequences of spaces, and converts sequences of at least
three spaces to tabs if that can be done without changing indentation.