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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need Help! Tabs 'n TextEdit
Summary: Can't currently be done
Message-ID: <14905@well.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 89 20:37:52 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.044549.24362@ug.cs.dal.ca> <5664@cps3xx.UUCP>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <5664@cps3xx.UUCP> cookr@cpsin1.UUCP (Robert W Jr Cook) writes:
>In article <1989Nov30.044549.24362@ug.cs.dal.ca> johnston@ug.cs.dal.ca (Bruce
Johnston) writes:
>>[discussion of substituting spaces for 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.
>
        This will not work with the new Styled TE (or at least it didn't under
System 4.2 when Styled TE first came out).  It should still work the older TE,
but I have not tried it recently.

>    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.
>
        Don't bother!  David Dunham and I tried it when this first got
published and it was discovered after LOTS of time in TMON and MacNosy (and then
confirming with the author) that there was a missing piece of code in TE - the 
System TE code is missing about two-three lines of code which would actually
USE the 'tabHook' (forget the name right now).
        They were supposed to fix this, but as of System 6.0.4 they have not
done so - maybe by the time they get TE to be Script Manager compatible, it
will  also either support tabs themselves or at least fix the hook!!

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