Re: How do I set the tab spacing in Edit?

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:04

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In article <1992Sep28.184235.7845@stb.info.com> michael@stb.info.com (Michael Gersten) writes:
>Is it possible to tell Edit that I want a tab for 8 blank spaces, but pressing
>the tab key only goes 4 spaces?
>
>In other words, when I hit <tab> once, I get an indent of 4 spaces, but if I
>press it twice, I get a real ^I TAB in the file?

This seems to be the indentation format used by NeXT, but I find it a pain to
use.  I set the tab spacing in Edit (or emacs) to 4 and use tabs for all indent
levels.  But then others complain when they look at my code in Edit with the
default 8-space tabs since this makes lines wrap, so if I remember before
passing code on to others, I untabify in emacs replacing all tabs with 4 spaces
to make others happy.

Does anyone have a better solution?
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
USmail: 95018-9442                                           Fax: (408)335-2515

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