I hate you all

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
> Historically, software and hardware which assigns a meaning to a tab
> character has come in two flavours:
>
> 1. Tab stops are every 8 columns; this cannot be changed.
> 2. Tab stops are configurable, defaulting to every 8 columns.

3. Tab stops are measured in something other than characters.

With variable-width fonts, it's illogical to set tab stops in
characters. DeScribe Word Processor defined them in centimeters, way
back in the early... well, I didn't meet it till the 90s, but I don't
know how long it had been around before that.

ChrisA