From: "Damian Yerrick" <NOSP AT Msnews@pineight.8m.com>
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Subject: Re: Rhide bug?
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"Hans Yperman" <Hans DOT Yperman AT rug DOT ac DOT be> wrote:
> The Edit->Compact text function may do bad things with your code.
>
> (I assume in this example that a tab=8 spaces.)
> Do  this:(not indented, start at column 0)
> *xy++=' ';
> with the space between the quotes on the tabstops-1'th column.
> Now there is no way to see the difference between tab and
> space on this place, so Rhide replaces the space with a tab.
> At runtime,a tab is written in the string,not a space.

It's a readability flaw in your code. Try
*xy++ = '\t';

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