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Re: Display tables and `tabify'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Display tables and `tabify' |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:20:47 +0300 |
> From: Samuel Padgett <samuel.padgett@gte.net>
> Date: 12 Apr 2001 19:00:00 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>
> > On 10 Apr 2001, Samuel Padgett wrote:
> >
> > > The amount of whitespace in the buffer should stay the same.
> >
> > I'm not sure. `tabify' preserves the _visual_ appearence of the text.
> > For example, if you modify tab-width, the amount of TABs inserted by
> > `tabify' will change accordingly, right? I don't see how your case is
> > different.
>
> Well, before running tabify the text looks like
>
> \t\tTime flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
>
> After tabify, it looks like
>
> Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
>
> The visual appearance has changed, right?
My wording was unclear; sorry. By ``visual appearance'' I meant the
visual appearence of the text indentation. In other words, `tabify'
preserves the display column of each non-whitespace character. Thus,
the capital `T' is left at column 4, as it was before `tabify'.