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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Ingo Ruhnke" <grumbel AT gmx DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:40:01 +0000
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"Ingo Ruhnke" <grumbel AT gmx DOT de> wrote:

> Gruber Gerhard schrieb in Nachricht <34EC0DE5 DOT 5F7A5848 AT sis DOT co DOT at>...
> 
> >I'm using headers like this to document functions. In this case all
> >blanks are substituted by an appropriate number of tabs. Now when i
> >place the cursor after 'x' and type a new character, this means that the
> >tab, that holds that position will be subsituted and the trailing '*/'
> >jumps. Looks like this then.
> >
> >/****************************************************/
> >/* Comment xx                                 */
> >/****************************************************/
> 
> 
> I think the easiest way to change this behaviour is to use spaces instead of
> tabs. It is also often a bad idea to use tabs, because different editor
> interpretate them different. And so a text which is indented with tabs could
> look very ugly with another editor.
> 
> But there is some confusing other behaviour with tabs. If i type something
> like this:
> 
> foo[tab]bar[tab]foobar
> 
> it looks like this:
> 
> foo  _   bar      foobar
>      ^ here is the cursor
> 
> But i can place my cursor between the words, normaly i would expect that the
> cursor jumps from the end of foo to beginning of bar. And if i now starts
> typing, the text if placed after foo and _not_ at the cursor position. I
> don't know if it is a bug or a feature, but it is confusing.

That's a feature.

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