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From: johnston@ug.cs.dal.ca (Bruce Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Need Help! Tabs 'n TextEdit
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.044549.24362@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Date: 30 Nov 89 04:45:49 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Hi there Mac gurus ...... I have yet another question about using TextEdit

I realize that Inside Mac explicitly states that TextEdit does not support the
use of tabs. (at least IM I does) Anyway I would really like implement some
sort of tab system. It wouldn't have to be very complicated.... a fixed length
tab would be fine. 

Has anyone had any experience in doing this or any ideas. I thought about 
checking for a tab before I go into TEKey and if I find a tab then I would
change the call into a specified number of spaces by repeatedly calling TEKey
with a space value. But this would be a real, and I mean REAL, ugly hack and
it wouldn't help with back tabbing. So anybody got any neat ideas?

Thanx in advance
Bruce

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Bruce Johnston       
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia, CAnada.

Disclaimer: I'm always right... and submarines have screen doors!