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From: dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:37:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] tabstops
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On Friday 16 of November 2012 11:12:38 Steve Simon wrote:
> I am working on a project that insists on 4 space indentation of code=
.
>=20
> I can change the tabstop environment variable so I layout the code
> how they want but I am still inderting tabs into my source.
>=20
> I can use russ's tab(1) to convert the tabs to whitespace before ever=
y
> checkin, but thats a bit painful.

create tabfs, a stacking FS? convert leading tabs to spaces on write(3)=
,=20
convert leading quartets of spaces to tabs on read(3).

IIRC there was already some stacking FS doing somet ranslation, perhaps=
 it was=20
CRLF <->LF

--=20
dexen deVries

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