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  • N Nish Nishant

    Is there any tool to replace a tab with 4 spaces? It's a big pain to do that, manually!!! Nish


    Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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    Hmm. I just don't get it, why are spaces better than tabs? Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen FreeBSD is sexy.

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    • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

      Hmm. I just don't get it, why are spaces better than tabs? Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen FreeBSD is sexy.

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      Chris Maunder
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      Because when displayed in HTML tabs within a <pre> block are quite wide (around 8 spaces) whereas 4 spaces inside a <pre> block is 4 spaces. I'm guessing Nish is editing his articles. cheers, Chris Maunder

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      • N Nish Nishant

        Michael Dunn wrote: VC can do it. Edit->Advanced->Untabify Selection But I don't wanna untabify them. I want to replace the tabs with 4 spaces each. Nish


        Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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        Michael Dunn
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        Nish - Native CPian wrote: I want to replace the tabs with 4 spaces each. That's what "untabify" does. ;) --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm

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        • H Haim Yulzari

          Nish - Native CPian wrote: Nope! If it's not freeware, don't even give me the link Try this excellent freeware: www.vim.org Haim

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          Nish Nishant
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          vi for windows eh? Nish


          Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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          • K Kannan Kalyanaraman

            Nish - Native CPian wrote: Nope! If it's not freeware, don't even give me the link Oh ! I didn't know that you are looking for freeware :-) Anyway, you can withstand the pain for installing/removing you can try downloading the eval. thanks i got the flashplayer. Kannan

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            Nish Nishant
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            Kannan Kalyanaraman wrote: Anyway, you can withstand the pain for installing/removing you can try downloading the eval. Or a crack ;-) Nish


            Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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            • L loket

              ...hmmm, and i who tought you where a programmer. ;P

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              Nish Nishant
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              loket wrote: hmmm, and i who tought you where a programmer. :((


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              • K Kevnar

                You can do that in PERL in one line... $sourcecode =~ s/\t/ {4}/g; Assuming you have access to perl. Assuming you meant outside of your native code editor. (I can't vouch for the absolute accuracy of the above line. I haven't used PERL in a while.) Why not throw away a dime? I throw away ten pennies all the time.

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                Nish Nishant
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                I do have perl access. But I wanted it as a sort of editor feature. Nish


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                • C Chris Maunder

                  Because when displayed in HTML tabs within a <pre> block are quite wide (around 8 spaces) whereas 4 spaces inside a <pre> block is 4 spaces. I'm guessing Nish is editing his articles. cheers, Chris Maunder

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  Chris Maunder wrote: I'm guessing Nish is editing his articles. :-O :-O :-O


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                  • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                    Hmm. I just don't get it, why are spaces better than tabs? Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen FreeBSD is sexy.

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                    Nish Nishant
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                    Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Hmm. I just don't get it, why are spaces better than tabs? They are not better or worse. But for CP articles, tabs cause horizontal scrolling!!! Nish


                    Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                    • M Michael Dunn

                      Nish - Native CPian wrote: I want to replace the tabs with 4 spaces each. That's what "untabify" does. ;) --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer Like the Google toolbar? Then check out UltraBar, with more features & customizable search engines! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm

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                      Nish Nishant
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                      Michael Dunn wrote: That's what "untabify" does. Oh! Thanks, then :-) Nish


                      Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                      • N Nish Nishant

                        Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: Hmm. I just don't get it, why are spaces better than tabs? They are not better or worse. But for CP articles, tabs cause horizontal scrolling!!! Nish


                        Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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                        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                        Nish - Native CPian wrote: They are not better or worse 1) Tabs are better. I could start a huge rant about that. Nish - Native CPian wrote: But for CP articles, tabs cause horizontal scrolling!!! 2) This is the exception to 1). :-D Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen FreeBSD is sexy.

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                        • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                          Nish - Native CPian wrote: They are not better or worse 1) Tabs are better. I could start a huge rant about that. Nish - Native CPian wrote: But for CP articles, tabs cause horizontal scrolling!!! 2) This is the exception to 1). :-D Sonorked as well: 100.13197 jorgen FreeBSD is sexy.

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                          Nish Nishant
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                          Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: 2) This is the exception to 1). Maybe :-) But that exception has been responsible for making a lot of my articles scroll horizontally :-) Nish


                          Regards, Nish Native CPian. Born and brought up on CP. With the CP blood in him.

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