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xedit and the tab key

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Feb 26 17:26:55 1990

From: smyser@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 17:26:27 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I notice that the x-editor xedit does not show tabs as a series of spaces. 
This is a serious defect, both when editing existing files that have tabs
in them and when building new files (in which you press tab but have no
idea if they got in to the file).

Rob Smyser
Manager, Computer Resource Laboratories
MIT School of Architecture and Planning

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