On 6 Feb 2006, at 23:26, Sune Foldager wrote:
On 06/02/2006, at 23:12, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:
Try leaving 7 characters on a soft-tabs-3spaces setting, and try to use the arrow keys to move past it.
For the OP: Another way to see it is insert a few tabs in soft tabs mode, switch to normal tab mode and see that they are indeed spaces. Regardless, they are saved as spaces if inserted with the tab key in soft tab mode. Switching mode will NOT convert anything either to or from, so do it with the menu commands if needed.
Yes, I got that soft tab mode treated runs of spaces as virtual tabs - but I didn't appreciate the second bit about soft tab mode inserting spaces. I've got it now, thanks :)
Now, if I could only turn off the funky virtual tab behaviour I'd be completely happy. I'm not keen on cursor moves not reflecting what's in the text.