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Subject: Re: Need Help! Tabs 'n TextEdit
Summary: TABs in TextEdit
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Date: 5 Dec 89 04:29:07 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.044549.24362@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: cookr@cpsin1.UUCP (Robert W Jr Cook)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <1989Nov30.044549.24362@ug.cs.dal.ca> johnston@ug.cs.dal.ca (Bruce Johnston) writes:
>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

Not only very ugly, it doesn't give true tabs.

I haven't done it myself, but if I where, I'd get the following...

    MacTutor volume 2 number 11.  Contains source example and good
        explanations of how to do variable tabs.

    All Tech Notes regarding TextEdit.  One of them contains a routine
        that can be used for this purpose.  Actually, it documents a
        new hook into TE.

The examples in MacTutor where (understandably) typical of that publication...  nearly no error handling and no guarentee of compatiblity.  The Tech Notes will
help with both items.  Hope that this helps, and I'm sorry if this has
already been repeated.  I still have nearly a hundred articles to catch
up on after finals...

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Robert Cook.
Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI
I'm just a student, have nothing of value, so please don't sue me...