will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: >> Yes, this is Linux. This means that the standard for hard tabs is 8 >> characters wide. >> >> If you ever want to exchange files with anyone else, and you want >> them to be able to read your files without getting a headache, >> please either ensure that your tab key inserts spaces, or your hard >> tabs are 8 characters wide. > >if you don't know, just say so. :)
There is no way. I know of at least one program that unconfigurably assumes eight characters, and I doubt that's worth changing (newsreaders are *about* exchanging information with other people, breaking tab stops would be a bad idea). >> Many coding conventions require this. > >so let's say i'm gonna live in a vacuum for the next forty years. >how can i change my tabs, system-wide? or is this like windo~1 >where you can't change something if The Forces That Be don't want >you to? If you want to do it, patch the console driver and any X terminal emulators you use, plus quite possibly less and a bunch of applications. Since tabs go to the next eight-space stop, I doubt there's been a great effort to make it configurable. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
