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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Bad Tabifying
Message-ID: <419@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 12:00:35 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 12:00:35 1985
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> Common and useful utility is one that "Tabify's" a document -- gets all
> those long streams of spaces and converts them to appropriate tab
> equivalents.
> 
> Howsomeever... a wee little problem here with BOTH these programs.
> They grab all sorts of spaces and change them into tabs, making REAL
> problems ...
> David Kirschbaum
> Toad Hall
> ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID
This also can happen with source of programs.  Many (most?) compilers
don't care about tabs vs. spaces in source *except* in literals.  I had
one devilishly hard to find bug (because the screen and listings showed
a space in the string), and only found it when I used debug to look
at the source file.  (Yes, I WAS desperate.)
--henry schaffer  n c state univ