From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 20 23:25:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79302106564A for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 23:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55A2C8FC08 for ; Fri, 20 May 2011 23:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B1D12E805F5; Fri, 20 May 2011 16:25:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:25:36 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: "Julian H. Stacey" Message-ID: <20110520232536.GA5016@thought.org> References: <20110518191001.GA22364@thought.org> <201105201412.p4KECZUO078750@fire.js.berklix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201105201412.p4KECZUO078750@fire.js.berklix.net> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: Dan Nelson , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 23:25:38 -0000 On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 04:12:35PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:12:35 +0200 > From: "Julian H. Stacey" > Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?) > To: Gary Kline > cc: Dan Nelson , FreeBSD Mailing List > > X-URL: http://www.berklix.com > > Hi, > Reference: > > From: Gary Kline > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 12:10:01 -0700 > > Message-id: <20110518191001.GA22364@thought.org> > > Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:09:36PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 13:09:36 -0500 > > > From: Dan Nelson > > > Subject: Re: Expanding tabs (was Re: kwik way?) > > > To: Gary Kline > > > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > > > > > > In the last episode (May 18), Gary Kline said: > > > > should i use tr or sed to turn "\t" into " "? --i.e., tabs into spaces. > > > > > > tr or expand (depending on whether you want to honor the intent of the tab > > > or not). sed is overkill. > > > > > > yeah, agree. i grabbed an old `for k in *;do' script and used tr on > > 80+ files. [facing reality, i'm throwing in the towel on hacking. > > wanted something easy!] > > http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/tab/tab.c > & tab.1 & Makefile > works on the assumption of 8,16 etc, not other minorities eg ts=4 > > Mature code 1988 till now. Hasn't burnt me yet. > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com > Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. > Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. Been messing with tab.c [on my desktop, ubuntu]; it compiles with gcc tab.c, etc. the man page displays cleanly. thing is: how to i get, say hello, \t how are \t you to translate to hello, how are you [?] in other words, tab -> 1 space rather than the defaul of 4. tx, gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 7.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org