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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 01 Oct 2024 17:40:56 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:26:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> Because his theory that all spaces could be replaced with tabs, was not
>> applicable to padded string literals inside the code itself

> The algorithm was wrong. The correct way that "tabify" and "untabify" work 
> in Emacs, for example, is to only process the leading whitespace on the 
> line.

Wrong.  They operate on every occurrence of <TAB> in the file, or replace
appropriate numbers of <SPC>s with an equivalently place <TAB>.

I use these nearly every fucking day.  You're flat out wrong.

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