Indentation style...

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Tim,

> Tabs interpreted as screen distance from the margin can mean that, but
> "round up to a multiple of N columns" tabs are only useful provided everyone
> agrees on a single value for N.  I expect tabs in that sense were really
> introduced as a cheap-ass compression gimmick, back in the days when the
> percentage of your disk space devoted to plain text files still fit in the
> dynamic range of a 32-bit float <wink>.

Were they orginally used back in the days of teletypes as a means
of speeding up transmission by compressing several spaces?  Don't think
disc space was a consideration then :-)


Ralph.