Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > 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.
Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming in Python. So a "tab equals some number of spaces" really isn't useful to me. My setup is, "tab equals this much space". -tom! -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list