From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <509071940708261954t12450857q59185879f4ed67ef@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:54:23 -0400 From: "Anthony Sorace" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <509071940708261815k7002323aw1db4ee6e32f43a0@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0de0144-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/26/07, erik quanstrom wrote: > > i agree tab handling is imperfect and often frustrating >> (especially when working with people who code in >> variable-width fonts, which, personally, still seems a bit >> odd to me) [...] > > why? no good reason. intellectually, i entirely agree with your arguments. emotionally, however, i just still find it jarring. much less so than i did even a few years ago (thanks, like uriel says, to acme) i'm less concerned about existing text getting messed up, provided you do something sensible (read: very much like what is done today) with the common case of beginning a paragraph with a tab. beyond that, aligning tabs is already wrong frequently enough when dealing with text from one environment in even a slightly different one that i don't think the new marginal incorrect cases would be too bad.