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We use tabs set to 4 in our C source code; however, the Solaris
'de*''s text window pane always interprets the tabs as 8.

Does anyone know if it is possible to apply a filter to the de*
when openning a text file (ie. expand -4) or some other setting?

I've been pouring through the on-line help and man pages but cannot figure it
out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

John.

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What you've created are files that can't be read easily with more and
other tools; not just in the de*.

Repent; and use spaces instead of tabs in your source code.
Vi uses ^T for that; you can have other editors do different things.
(Personally, I feel it's abig mistake that vi and others allow changing the
pretty much hardcoded-everywhere-else "a tab is 8" rule)

Quote:>Does anyone know if it is possible to apply a filter to the de*
>when openning a text file (ie. expand -4) or some other setting?

Casper
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I certainly don't think that a tab stop of 4 is unusual or breaking a
'definition' of how big a tab stop should be.

If you use the Solaris Workshop, I think you can specify the de* viewer as
being your editor eg. vi, and hence your problems are solved.

Brian