[Info-vax] Editors, was: Re: VT keyboard replacement

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-18, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <sn3pd5$1ldj$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
> helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
> writes: 
>
>> In article <48c3c19d-416a-4c6e-aef1-f697ce8d3332n at googlegroups.com>,
>> "alanfe... at gmail.com" <alanfeldman48 at gmail.com> writes: 
>> 
>> > > How do you get EDT to convert spaces to tabs in your code ? 
>> 
>> *s|	|   |w
>> 
>> The first "invisible" parameter is a tab.  The second is three spaces; 
>> insert however many you like.
>
> Sorry, backwards!  Correct is
>
>    *s|   |	|w
>

Still no better. The tabify command in emacs converts spaces to tabs
so that they are aligned on tab boundaries.

That means, in a document, the first line might have 3 spaces replaced
by a tab, the second line might have 8 spaces converted to a tab, and
the third line might convert the first 2 spaces to a tab while leaving
the third space on that line as a space character.

Simon.

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