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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: (A short review... ) Re: SAGE Professional Editor ???
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Date: 2 May 90 15:56:56 GMT
References: <1990Apr30.052755.28304@tandem.com> <1990May1.052810.14592@Octopus.COM>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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In article <1990May1.052810.14592@Octopus.COM> pete@octopus.COM (Pete Holzmann) writes:
>	o It is simply impossible to set up tab character 'stops' differently
>		from indent levels.
>	o It doesn't understand auto-translation of tabs-into-spaces (and
>		the reverse) when reading/writing files.

>To be sure, Brief doesn't do this very well either. But vi does, and VEdit 
>does, and it wasn't difficult to get MultiEdit to do it either.

For the record, Epsilon handles the first point automatically. 

It doesn't do the tab<->spaces translation automatically on reading
writing. But it runs properly with tabs of any size imbedded in the
text while editing, and there are commands to to the translation.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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