Re: [jed-users] Simulated tabs without having to use Esc-X ?

[Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Didn't read close enough

USE_TABS=0; TAB_DEFAULT=4; C_INDENT=4;

This will not convert existing tabs or spaces in a file. The C_INDENT is 
for when you are programming C/C++. Do not know if other languages look 
at it.

If you need arbitrary or COBOL tab stops there is a good write-up in 
10.3 here

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/doc/jed/html/jed011.html

If you are wanting to "fix" any file you open, read here

https://www.jedsoft.org/lists/jed-users/2017/0000077.html

There exists both untab and untab_buffer but I've never used them.

On 5/14/26 2:31 PM, Hippo Man wrote:
> I have read the documentation about tabs in this document:
>
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/configuring-jed/ 
>
>
> I want to use simulated tabs consisting of 4 spaces in all files
> that I edit via Jed, without exception.
>
> I don't want to manually perform the Esc-X sequence described
> in that documentation in each buffer that I edit, and I want
> to force the use of 4-space simulated tabs by means of one or
> more commands within the Jed configuration files.
>
> And to be clear, I want the result to always be that no
> Ctrl-I characters ever appear in any of my Jed-edited text,
> and that all tabbing is implemented via the use of spaces.
>
> However, I can't figure out from that documentation how to
> force such space-character-implemented tabbing via any kind of
> function call or configuration in the Jed config files.
>
> Is there any way to do this in Jed, or am I stuck with having
> to rely on the manual Esc-X sequence in each buffer that I
> am editing?
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