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On KEDIT (I'm not sure with VM/SP XEDIT), you can also do this:

	[SET] TABS INCR 4

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Larry Margolis <margoli@watson.ibm.com> writes:

>In  <1991Aug23.165248.440@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>  cmz2@po.CWRU.Edu (Carlos M. Zenteno) writes:
>>      Does anybody out there knows how to change the default
>> length of 8 in Xedit.

>Assuming you're talking about XEDIT on VM, HELP TABS will tell you how:
>   TABS n1 [n2...n28]

>To make the change permanent, you can add it to your PROFILE XEDIT.

I have ran into a similar problem with KEDIT and tabs on a PC.  Several
coworkers use KEDIT rather than vi.  Recently they needed to modify a
makefile.  They had problems with KEDIT converting the tabs to spaces
(the default for KEDIT).  After studying the manual, we found that we
could get KEDIT to either:

1.  Leave the tabs alone, but display them on the screen as a happy-face
or some such PC 8-bit screen character.

2.  Convert tabs to spaces when the file is read in and convert back to
tabs when it is subsequently written back out to disk.


The problem with #1 is that any formatting of a file with tabs is lost
when it is used.

The problem with #2 is that sometimes original spaces in a file may
be converted to tabs in places that they are NOT wanted.

So, does anyone know how to make KEDIT emulate vi in how it treats tabs,
ie. leave the tab character alone in the file AND display it as XX spaces
as specified in a set command?

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The TAB-increment can be set for Xedit to be something else than 8:

    SET TABS INCR 4

This sets the tans increment to 4

Alternatively you can also specify the tabs explicitly:

    SET TABS 1 9 17 etc.

I don't know however, how one can only partially suppress the expansion
of tabs, or the compression to tabs. The zonesettings are apparently
ignored by the compress command.
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