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Article #372Re: (A short review... ) Re: SAGE Professional Editor ???
From: Tom Almy
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 15:56
Date: Wed, 02 May 1990 15:56
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In article <1990May1.052810.14592@Octopus.COM> pete@octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann) writes: > o It is simply impossible to set up tab character 'stops' differently > from indent levels. > o It doesn't understand auto-translation of tabs-into-spaces (and > the reverse) when reading/writing files. >To be sure, Brief doesn't do this very well either. But vi does, and VEdit >does, and it wasn't difficult to get MultiEdit to do it either. For the record, Epsilon handles the first point automatically. It doesn't do the tab<->spaces translation automatically on reading writing. But it runs properly with tabs of any size imbedded in the text while editing, and there are commands to to the translation. Tom Almy toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com Standard Disclaimers Apply
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mephisto!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekcrl!tekgvs!toma From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: (A short review... ) Re: SAGE Professional Editor ??? Message-ID: <7432@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> Date: 2 May 90 15:56:56 GMT References: <1990Apr30.052755.28304@tandem.com> <1990May1.052810.14592@Octopus.COM> Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) Distribution: usa Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 18