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From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
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Subject: Re: setting tab stops
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Date: 20 Jul 90 02:38:07 GMT
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In article <1037@rossignol.Princeton.EDU> tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) writes:
>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.
>The assumption is that the terminal tabs at every eighth
>position.

Just use an obvious algorithm.  It's more likely that you'll want
to allow tab stops at arbitrary positions (i.e. not a power of
two) than that you'll save significant time by using shifts and
bitwise operators.

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs@adam.mit.edu