To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Text editors
Message-ID: <19970122.180301.4975.1.chambersb@juno.com>
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From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:04:07 EST


On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 23:14:15 GMT bdarnell AT vnet DOT net (Ben Darnell) writes:
>DOS edit does this on a line-by-line basis.  If you don't change a
>line, it is saved to the file exactly as it was (i.e. with tabs
>intact).  However, if you change a line, it converts tabs to spaces on
>that line.  unexpand (one of the textutils) will convert 

In my experience, Edit will only convert tabs to spaces (in the file, not
on the screen) if you actually edit those spaces on the screen.  When
I've edited the lines of makefiles that started with TAB's, the makefiles
were still valid - so the tab must have stayed.

...Chambers