From: Dave Appelbaum 
@Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:06:52 -0800
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au


   I like seeing the tabs in the files I load into TSE.
Once I've observed them, I may do a search-and-replace on them.
With Expand Tabs set to OFF, the tabs look similar to this   o      .

   Seeing the tabs tells me much 
more about the file I have loaded than seeing 
an arbitrary conversion of tabs into 
some number of white space characters.

-From the TSE 2.5 help

Tab/Margin Options
------------------

_ Expand Tabs (Display Only)        (ExpandTabs)            Std: ON

  Toggles ExpandTabs ON or OFF.  This dictates whether the editor displays
  tabs as the appropriate number of spaces, as determined by the value of
  TabWidth.  Set this option ON to have the editor interpret tab characters so
  that the text is positioned on the screen according to the current TabWidth.
  Set this option OFF to have the editor display each tab character on the
  screen as the physical tab character itself (ASCII 9).  Note, however, that
  ExpandTabs has no effect on any line longer than 255 characters.

  ExpandTabs affects only the screen display of tab characters; it does not
  affect how tab characters are stored in the file itself.  If ExpandTabs is
  ON and the file is subsequently saved, the actual tab characters are stored
  in the file, and NOT the spaces that displayed on the screen.


-From: Dave Guyer 
>I also suspect the following would need to be added:
>* my detab menu.  Hard tabs should be illegal in code!  Many set them to
>different numbers of spaces than the "stock" 8.  Horrid for
indentation and
>thus readability.


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