From: Paul Shirley Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Anyone know anything about RSXNTDJ? Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 23:37:57 +0100 Organization: DrinkSoft Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <844476775.27675.0@chocolat.foobar.co.uk> References: <1 DOT 5 DOT 4 DOT 32 DOT 19961003233108 DOT 00695318 AT ans DOT com DOT au> <532btk$3il AT groa DOT uct DOT ac DOT za> NNTP-Posting-Host: chocolat.foobar.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp In article <532btk$3il AT groa DOT uct DOT ac DOT za>, Fabian Nunez writes >If your editor's one of those that likes converting tabs to spaces (like DOS >edit) you're stuffed. I would suggest emacs, but it's a bit bloated for my >liking (I'm not a big lisp fan :). Try one called JED, the latest version >emulates emacs quite well and it's nice and small(ish). You need to be careful using JED on makefiles, the author has a dislike of hard tabs, (emacs mode may be OK - I use Brief mode ;) If necessary try adding this line to jed.rc to allow real tabs. setkey ("self_insert_cmd", "^I"); % TAB ...I also map 'indent_line' to . Does anyone know if other Unix makes still need the hard tab? (I asked if anyone knew what 'important syntactical function' it fulfils >18 months ago with no reply so far, leading me to think this is just another bit of FSF pig-headedness ;) -- Paul Shirley