tabbing probs

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, Michael <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu> wrote:

>>You're contradicting yourself. In a prior post, you said that if you
>>had a crappy editor, then change it. Now you're saying that you
>>think you would have to press the space bar or the backspace key
>>multiple times, and you're not going to give up that crappy editor
>>for one that works properly.
>>
> An editor is crappy if it inserts anything other than what you type
> into the code. If I press tab and four spaces are inserted that is
> crap. If I press 'A' and 'a' is inserted that is crap. To me, it
> sounds as if this entire issue is caused by crappy editors that think
> they know better than the programmers. If you want a smart alec paper
> clip telling you what to do when you're editing code then feel free to
> do so but I just want raw access to my code.

Does your backspace key insert a backspace character (^H), also?

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