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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenonbeta/kio-rio
From:       Michael Matz <matz () ifh ! de>
Date:       2000-10-13 7:39:35
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Hi,

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Charles wrote:
> > What you seem to want is a character <ind> with a semantic like "only
> > usable as the first characters of a line, and moving the cursor
> > <indent-with> characters to the right". This would indeed be a useful
> > character, but unfortunately <tab> isn't quite that thing, although
> > sometimes used like it.
> tab is exactly that cursor, when used at the start line, and it would work 

If used _only_ at the start of line, because otherwise the change of
tab-width would screw the other text.

> just fine if people actually used it properly.

Everything works fine, if used properly ;-) In the context of using <tab>
as indent character "properly" means "not at all". ;-))


Ciao,
Michael.

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