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From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acme tabs to spaces
Date: Tue,  6 Dec 2005 12:37:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a99f85f52ccb40cae843d2b3de9063a@9netics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051206190637.GB4200@sigint.cs.purdue.edu>

>> Is there some automatic tab conversion code somewhere in Acme?  Where
>> would be the sane place to put such a thing?   (yes, I already know
>> there is no sane place for such a thing...)
> 
> Okay, I'll ask the obvious-- why not an en- and de-tabbing file server?

Kwel!!!  it should read emacs style headers and figure out what the
tabbing should be on reads and on writes it should reduce multiple
consecutive spaces to one,  to save space!  perhaps it could have
auto-capitalization for '\.([0-9]|man)$' files!

i'm joking of course.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-06 19:06 plan9
2005-12-06 20:37 ` Skip Tavakkolian [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-06 18:43 Paul Lalonde
2005-12-06 18:46 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-06 18:54 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-06 18:55 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-06 20:25   ` David Leimbach

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