On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: > Historically, software and hardware which assigns a meaning to a tab > character has come in two flavours: > > 1. Tab stops are every 8 columns; this cannot be changed. > 2. Tab stops are configurable, defaulting to every 8 columns.
3. Tab stops are measured in something other than characters. With variable-width fonts, it's illogical to set tab stops in characters. DeScribe Word Processor defined them in centimeters, way back in the early... well, I didn't meet it till the 90s, but I don't know how long it had been around before that. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
