Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!ecsvax!hes 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 Article-I.D.: ecsvax.419 Posted: Sun Sep 15 12:00:35 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:51:18 EDT References: <1445@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: NC State Univ. Lines: 16 > 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