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Re: Display tables and `tabify'
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Display tables and `tabify' |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:53:31 +0200 (IST) |
On 10 Apr 2001, Samuel Padgett wrote:
> Sometimes I use the following to display TABs as `\t':
>
> (aset standard-display-table ?\t (vector ?\\ ?t))
>
> The `tabify' command, however, breaks when I do this. For instance,
> if I have a line that begins with two TAB characters (and no spaces),
> the TABs are replaced by " " (four spaces) after `tabify' runs.
> The amount of whitespace in the buffer should stay the same.
I'm not sure. `tabify' preserves the _visual_ appearence of the text.
For example, if you modify tab-width, the amount of TABs inserted by
`tabify' will change accordingly, right? I don't see how your case is
different.