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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [Bug 64537] tab character not converted to spaces;
From:       Gene Heskett <gene.heskett () verizon ! net>
Date:       2004-12-18 3:27:28
Message-ID: 200412172227.28678.gene.heskett () verizon ! net
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On Friday 17 December 2004 20:59, Luke-Jr wrote:
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>------- Additional Comments From luke-jr+kdebugs utopios org 
> 2004-12-18 02:59 ------- This bug report is a bug in itself-- I
> want my tabs to stay tabs, with a visible width of 4.

By definition, that can only be done by converting the tabs to
spaces, because in the normal usage of a tab, its A) 8 spaces, and B)
counted in multiples of  8 spaces from the left margin to fill in so
that a tab always starts you off in the next column.  But, for
codeing, thats certainly a gross amount whereas 2 to 4 is sufficient
to do the lexical indentations.

That said, I'm with you, its a but hard to apply a patch that was
submitted via kmail, because the tabs have been converted to spaces.
Maybe that should be added to the configuration menu's?

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