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From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: setting tab stops
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Date: 12 Jul 90 21:03:14 GMT
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This question is not relevant to C, but I saw a nice algorithm, and I
think I saw it in comp.lang.c.  Someone posted a very terse way of
calculating how many spaces to move given an input of tabs.  I think it
used the modulo operator and some bitwise operators.  It was far too
terse and elegant for me to think of.  Can someone express what I am
thinking of?  The assumption is that the terminal tabs at every eighth
position.
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