Re: [fossil-users] TAB size in displayed content

2017-12-13 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 12, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Thomas wrote: > > On 2017-12-11 22:55, Warren Young wrote: >> notepad.exe and Internet Explorer also obey the 8-character tab standard. >> Go tell Microsoft it is wrong, too. > > I'm not sure how many people use notepad.exe to edit source code or to write > softwa

Re: [fossil-users] TAB size in displayed content

2017-12-12 Thread Thomas
Nice long expanation. Thanks. On 2017-12-11 22:55, Warren Young wrote: notepad.exe and Internet Explorer also obey the 8-character tab standard. Go tell Microsoft it is wrong, too. I'm not sure how many people use notepad.exe to edit source code or to write software from scratch, though, or

Re: [fossil-users] TAB size in displayed content

2017-12-11 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 11, 2017, at 3:26 PM, Thomas wrote: > > On 2017-12-11 21:47, Warren Young wrote: >> Try this > echo -e "\tHi" | cat > > Tried it just now. The leading $ means it’s intended to be understood as a Bourne shell command. The point remains true in Windows, however. This works the same way i

Re: [fossil-users] TAB size in displayed content

2017-12-11 Thread Thomas
On 2017-12-11 21:47, Warren Young wrote: Try this > echo -e "\tHi" | cat Tried it just now. 'cat' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. It’s indented 8 spaces, isn’t it? Are you now going to go try and get your terminal emulator to change as

Re: [fossil-users] TAB size in displayed content

2017-12-11 Thread Warren Young
On Dec 10, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Thomas wrote: > > the reason why horizontal tabs in artifacts are 8 characters wide is because > { tab-size: 4; } doesn't appear. > > Wouldn't it make sense to add this so that the /artifact, /fdiff etc pages > fall back to 4 instead of 8? Tabs at a multiple of 8