Re: elastic tabstops implemented for GTK

["Nick Gravgaard" <me nickgravgaard com>]

On 29/08/2007, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> Alex Jones wrote:
> >  I really can't wait to get this functionality, it finally puts an end to
> > all of the nonsense over how many spaces there should be in a tab!
>
> The option to avoid tabs has been here since ever.
> Did it put an end to the tab size nonsense?
> What makes you think this option will?

Because the usual way to interpret a tab character has been to place
the text after it at the next tabstop where the tabstop was a multiple
of N. Elastic tabstops don't work like that all. Please read the
website linked to in an earlier post.