In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Plunket wrote: > Perhaps interestingly, for development I have my editor set to show tabs > as fairly short, but my diff program shows them as eight characters. I > find that makes indentation changes easier to spot in the diffs.
I think there should be a single environment variable, perhaps called "TABS", which specifies the tab settings across all relevant tools that work with text, including less and diff. So for example setting this as export TABS=4 will cause these tools to treat tabs as equivalent to stepping to the next multiple of four columns from the start of the line. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list