From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about RSXNTDJ?
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:37:57 +0100
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In article <532btk$3il AT groa DOT uct DOT ac DOT za>, Fabian Nunez
<fnunez AT cs DOT uct DOT ac DOT za> writes
>If your editor's one of those that likes converting tabs to spaces (like DOS
>edit) you're stuffed. I would suggest emacs, but it's a bit bloated for my
>liking (I'm not a big lisp fan :). Try one called JED, the latest version
>emulates emacs quite well and it's nice and small(ish).  

You need to be careful using JED on makefiles, the author has a dislike
of hard tabs, (emacs mode may be OK - I use Brief mode ;)
If necessary try adding this line to jed.rc to allow real tabs.

setkey ("self_insert_cmd", "^I"); % TAB

...I also map 'indent_line' to <shift tab>.

Does anyone know if other Unix makes still need the hard tab? (I asked
if anyone knew what 'important syntactical function' it fulfils >18
months ago with no reply so far, leading me to think this is just
another bit of FSF pig-headedness ;)
-- 
Paul Shirley