Tabs vs. Spaces

[David Dyer-Bennet]

In article <2601 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
:I don't count a full-blown Emacs as a popular editor, seeing as how it won't
:run on anything with less than a couple of meg of virtual memory all for
:itself to keep it cozy at night. 

Epsilon runs happily in 256k on messy-dos, and does indenting just fine,
thank you.  For that matter, MINCE on a 64k CP/M system did 
minimally-useful indenting.  

For that matter, all that's really needed is a function to "indent under"
(match indenting on the previous line), and a "delete-backward-hacking-tabs".
Then mixed-character indenting is easy.  Not difficult technical problems.

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