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Subject: Re: [9fans] indenting source?
Date: Tue,  2 Mar 2004 09:36:48 +0000
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David Tolpin wrote:
> many sources in libc are written with four characters indent. What
> editor have they been written with? sam is rather incovenient to
> input text with indents other than one tab, or am I missing something?

8-character tab stops were standard in the world of DEC,
nicely fitting the 6-character identifier size.  Unix
inherited this..  As to handling other tab settings, my
"retab" utility is by far the most flexible I have seen,
and it works nicely with sam's | command.  You're welcome
to a copy; just send e-mail (that doesn't look like spam).