milos@inmet.UUCP (07/12/88)
This is all well and good for creating new files or editing existing files that were created with tabstop=70. It is not, however, the way to go if you are editing files that were created with more typical tabstop settings, e.g., tabstop=8. In such cases, the only reasonable solution (as identified in another note addressing this subject) is to run the source file through "expand" to eliminate the undesired tabs; unfortunately, this has the potentially undesirable side-effect of making the source file appear to have undergone more changes than necessary -- not nice if you're dealing with SCCS/RCS.