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landauer@morocco.sun.com
> Why is there such a ridiculous notion as "valid position"???  If the cursor
> is out beyond the end of a line and you start typing, then dammit the editor
> should insert enough spaces to allow you to type there!  If it's "in a tab
> field", then the tab should convert to the appropriate amount of spaces!

This action is easy enough to program into reasonable editors.  However,
there's enough whitespace-sensitive shtuff out there that this is a little too
dangerous to make this the default.  White characters are usually `invisible'
in the sense that you can't easily discern the difference between

"   	 " (4 spaces, a tab, and a space)

and

"        " (9 spaces)

In GNU Emacs, I would probably achieve your suggestion by making a minor mode
called White (or something), in which whitespace is assumed to be freely
mungeable.

Regards, [Ag] gaynor@rutgers.edu