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Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:16:10 -0800, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
wrote:

>cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) writes:
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:35:48 -0800, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
>> wrote:
>[...]
>> And if you have a friendly editor it will convert tabs to spaces and
>> vice versa just as you desire.
>
>But not very well if different past maintainers had different ideas of
>where the tabstops should be.  For example, one section of code might
>assume 2-column tabstops, and another might assume 4-column or 8-column
>tabstops.

Within a single file?  And your editor displays them all correctly?
How remarkable.
>
>Which is ok if tabs (and only tabs) are used exclusively for
>indentation, but not if both sections have a mix of tabs and spaces.

I don't you caught what I had in mind.  If your editor has the option
of automatically converting tabs into spaces you can use tabs with the
settings you prefer, get the indentation that floats your boat, and
still have a tab free file.  I keep all of my code in tab free format
(except for makefiles - boo, hiss).  If your editor can go the other
way, i.e., convert those pesky spaces into tabs, you can deal with
files that historically have tabs that you want to keep that way.
Just convert tabs to spaces, edit, and convert back from spaces to
tabs.

   

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Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 14:27 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:36 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:53 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-01-16 18:06 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:41 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 23:01 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:49 -0500
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 17:46 -0800
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-16 22:29 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Bubba <nickname@banelli.biz.invalid> - 2012-01-16 22:38 +0000
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed William Ahern <william@wilbur.25thandClement.com> - 2012-01-16 15:30 -0800
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-01-17 00:03 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 16:35 -0800
        Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 02:00 +0000
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 19:16 -0800
            Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed cri@tiac.net (Richard Harter) - 2012-01-17 05:15 +0000
              Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-17 00:00 -0800
          Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 04:04 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 22:44 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 17:58 -0500
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-16 19:36 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-01-16 23:33 -0500
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:18 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-01-17 13:54 +0000
      Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed ImpalerCore <jadill33@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 07:39 -0800
    Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-17 19:01 +0000
  Re: Tree implementation, ideas for keyboard input method needed jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-01-18 21:21 +0000

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