[Gllug] vi indenting

[Alain Williams]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:48:22PM -0000, Paul Brazier wrote:
> One place tabs fall down I've found is when using it for tabular data -
> because you can't set your tab stops separately for each text file you
> end up using muliple tabs just to line a column up.
> e.g. in /etc/fstab or something some of the first column entries are
> longer than others so you have multiple tabs to line them up.
Quite - but that is not what tab separated/indented lines are all about (variable width
fields).

> Or if you wanted to import to a database table with the convention that
> a single tab separates fields you get stuck.
I often export/import databases to/from tab separated files. If a field is empty
you just have the sequence <tab><tab>.


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Alain Williams

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