- From: Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:03:45 +1300
- To: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:43 AM, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> >> On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:33:08 +0100, David Woolley >> <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: >>> >>> I'm assuming that a tab isn't just a macro for n spaces, as that doesn't >>> seem a reasonable interpretation. >> >> Why not? That's exactly how tab is defined in CSS today. (And how most >> text editors go about it, as far as I know.) > > vi certainly doesn't work that way; it interprets tab as meaning add enough Anne actually meant "advance to the next tab stop", where the tab stops are separated by n spaces. I'm sure no-one actually thinks what you're thinking he thought. Rob -- "He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah 53:5-6]
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