[comp.sys.hp] xdb tab spacing

albert@netcom.UUCP (Albert Hui) (09/28/90)

Is there anyway to set the tab spacing for Xdb?  I use
a tab of 3 but xdb uses 8.

Thank you.

jmn@hpfcso.HP.COM (John Newman) (10/03/90)

> Is there anyway to set the tab spacing for Xdb?  I use
> a tab of 3 but xdb uses 8.

No, unfortunately there isn't.

You can convert all tabs in your sources to 3-space-boundaries with "expand
-3", and xdb will display what you'd expect to see.  Before editing the
file, this can be reversed:  "unexpand -3".  See the expand(1) man-page.

We have this problem on file as an enhancement.

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