[Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 103, Issue 18

[Roland Hughes]

On 4/9/20 3:11 PM, Hamish wrote:

On 31/3/20 6:09 am, Roland Hughes wrote:
>>/Just be aware that UltraEdit like many other PC originating editors />>/gets tabs wrong. When you set tabs to spaces and set their width to 4, />>/hitting <TAB> when cursor is in first column of the line has to put />>/the cursor in column 4, not 5 like far too many PC editors. /

>That's definitely not the right behaviour if you're coding Python for 
>example, which is a far more likely scenario for a modern editor than COBOL.


That's definitely the correct behavior for _all_ editors. It is a TAB 
_stop_. When it is 4 the cursor stops in 4. It has been that way since 
the days of mechanical typewriters. You can read far more about it here.

https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/most-text-editors-get-tabs-wrong/

Post has pictures and everything. Covers historical reasons. Mechanical 
typewriters, terminals, et-al.

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