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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sam question
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In-Reply-To: <3B7D5447.47AB7342@uisreno.com>; from Louis Beleos on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:28:39AM -0700
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 19:45:44 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 10:28:39AM -0700, Louis Beleos wrote:
> 
> Lucio De Re wrote:
> >  [...]
> > I still find it hard to deal with editors that do not allow me
> > to specify the size of a TAB expansion (SAM?!).  [...]
> > 
> > ++L
> 
> Have you tried setting /env/tabstop to your preferred value?
> 
As Rob points out, I'm one of old-thinker, ... or whiner.  I have
no doubt even used the facility, but I mostly, wrongly, think that
SAM doesn't do tabs properly.  Senility, maybe.

Or having used too many editors, from the editor built into
GW-Basic, the one in Wang's Basic-2, EDLIN and the DOS command
line, MS-DOS's EDIT, and the saga continues to this day, with
the syntax highlighting tools like the editor supplied with the
second edition Inferno (ED4W).

To be perfectly honest, my romantic notions are that nothing
beats the second release of Brief, although I now don't
remember if it had C or Lisp-like programming syntax.  Of
course, that was in the days of typescripts only, at least on
the computers I had access to.

I imagine editors are very much subjective tools and at best we
can compare notes, not evangelise.

++L