[Pythonmac-SIG] Editors -- backspace = 4 backspaces

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, dec 20, 2002, at 17:31 Europe/Amsterdam, Russell E Owen 
wrote:

>  It's funny how history controls us; if the original VT100 had used a 
> tab width of 4 instead of 8 we'd probably all be happily coding with 
> tabs.

Off by at least 20 years, I'm afraid: the venerable ASR-33 Teletype 
already had 8-char tabs. And I wouldn't be surprised if that machine 
picked it up from the telex industry or something.
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