Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!hao!noao!grandi
From: grandi@noao.arizona.edu (Steve Grandi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: QEdit vs. tabs
Message-ID: <668@noao.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 88 01:54:02 GMT
Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ
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I've been playing with QEdit for a couple of days to see how I like this
small, fast editor.  Version 2.00 of this shareware editor has a lot of
nice features and I was seriously considering retiring the sometimes
ponderous PC/VI to a floppy in favor of QEdit.  Then I edited a file
destined for tbl (the Unix table program) and noticed that all my tabs had
disappeared.  Reading the manual leads me to the conclusion that QEdit
converts hard tabs into the equivalent number of spaces when a file is read
into memory for editing and, furthermore, there is no way to insert a hard
tab. 

Am I missing something?  Seems a shame to toss QEdit because of a lack of
hard tabs!
-- 
Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ, 602-325-9228
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