Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!nic.MR.NET!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Tabs vs. Spaces Message-ID: <1058@ns.UUCP> Date: 4 Jan 89 20:27:30 GMT References: <570@tifsie.uucp> <2601@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) Organization: Terrabit Software Lines: 18 In article <2601@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: :I don't count a full-blown Emacs as a popular editor, seeing as how it won't :run on anything with less than a couple of meg of virtual memory all for :itself to keep it cozy at night. Epsilon runs happily in 256k on messy-dos, and does indenting just fine, thank you. For that matter, MINCE on a 64k CP/M system did minimally-useful indenting. For that matter, all that's really needed is a function to "indent under" (match indenting on the previous line), and a "delete-backward-hacking-tabs". Then mixed-character indenting is easy. Not difficult technical problems. -- -- David Dyer-Bennet ...!{rutgers!dayton | amdahl!ems | uunet!rosevax}!umn-cs!ns!ddb ddb@Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300