On 05/04/2017 18:00, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2017-04-05, Axel Berger  wrote:
>
>> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> and many programs (e.g. cat) assume a tab every 8 spaces.
>>
>> Are you seriously using an editor for actual work, that does not even
>> have have a configurable tab length?
>
> Yes: vi on Linux, Notepad on Windows.  (I compile the same source code
> for both systems, and edit it on whichever one is more appropriate at
> the time.)

Notepad uses CRLF line endings. AFAIK, vi uses LF only. How do you deal
with that?

When using Windows to edit Unix files I usually use Wordpad since it
accepts existing files with LF line ends.

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James Harris

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