[OT] Spaces/tabs (Was: simple display (from: GUI library for D))

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message 
>> news:mailman.3396.1302548836.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>>> Smart editors also allow you to unindent with a single backspace
>>> regardless if you're using tabs or spaces.
>> In other words, *some* editors handle space-indentation intelligently (and 
>> do so by reinventing *tabs*), while *all* editors handle tab-indentation 
>> intelligently.
>>
> 	I have seen editors that would convert a tab to spaces and only
> delete one space when hitting backspace ;)
> 
	Reading myself, I realise that I was not perfectly clear: the
editor would accept the tab and insert a tab character, it is only
when hitting backspace after a tab that the editor would convert the
tab to N-1 space (assuming tabs are equivalent to N spaces).

		Jerome
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