From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam question
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 10:15:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010817141807.750DB199DD@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
People spend too much time fussing about how wide (read:
how many characters) a tab should be. This "retab" program
is a perfect example of that old-think.
Tab stops, as computing uses them, become much less
meaningful in the world of variable-pitch fonts, the world
of today. Someone needs to figure out how to make tab
stops become true places on the screen, rather than just
an approximation simulated using the width of spaces
or numbers, without breaking the model of simple text
we've come to know and love. It's a tough problem.
Meanwhile, the output from ls -l and ps is suffering, people.
-rob
next reply other threads:[~2001-08-17 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-17 14:15 rob pike [this message]
2001-08-17 16:58 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-07-17 22:56 [9fans] sam question Skip Tavakkolian
2008-07-18 0:28 ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-18 0:45 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-07-18 10:01 ` roger peppe
2008-07-18 13:22 ` Russ Cox
2001-08-20 12:06 [9fans] Sam question bwc
2001-08-19 18:06 rob pike
2001-08-19 15:05 bwc
2001-08-19 15:59 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 12:44 rob pike
2001-08-18 7:38 nigel
2001-08-18 8:31 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-20 8:57 ` Luis Fernandes
2001-08-20 11:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-18 11:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 6:57 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 10:54 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 11:13 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 12:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 12:23 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-19 16:17 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-19 20:57 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-17 22:35 David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-18 4:47 ` Rick Hohensee
2001-08-19 6:29 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-17 22:22 geoff
2001-08-17 17:00 rob pike
2001-08-17 16:32 David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-17 16:55 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-17 17:08 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-17 17:28 ` Louis Beleos
2001-08-17 17:45 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-17 17:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-17 17:04 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-18 1:36 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-19 6:31 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-17 14:22 rob pike
2001-08-14 12:41 rob pike
2001-08-08 10:45 [9fans] ls -R rog
2001-08-08 17:08 ` [9fans] Sam question gene garbutt
2001-08-14 9:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-16 21:07 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-17 8:50 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-17 12:14 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 8:56 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-20 11:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 16:25 ` Sam Ducksworth
2001-08-20 15:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-21 8:37 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-08-21 9:31 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-22 2:52 ` Donald Brownlee
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