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Insert Spaces for Tabs - After the Fact [message #337053]

Fri, 24 July 2009 18:27

P. Michael Hutchins

Messages: 19
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

It would be valuable for me to be able to paste into a text editor a block
of text..
(eg: from an XL spreadsheet outputted as tab-delimited)

..and then (immediately) thereafter, have all those tabs changed to the
number of spaces each represents.

(even though the editor doesn't let me specify as many spaces for tabs as
is needed sometimes)

Is that possible?

If not, 2nd best would be to understand when the editor decides to do that
substitution.

Reading what postings I've been able to find, it appears that it's meant
to be only on ~new tab insertions~..
..and yet, I just had an experience which strongly suggests that it
happens at other times.
:
I spent /forever/ manually fixing up a table w/ tab size of 16..
..and then set it back to 3 to go back to my normal editing.
When I opened the file next, all my tab-formatting in the table was
screwed up - just as (I didn't check carefully enf) all the tabs had been
replaced by 3 spaces.

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