rms@AI.MIT.EDU (06/07/89)
I just finished a commission to implement an Emacs feature. Now I'd like to know whether enough users want it to warrant putting it in the standard distribution (and making Emacs bigger). The feature is that TAB characters in the buffer display by advancing *or truncating* to the next specified column in a list of tab stops. The first TAB advances or truncates to the first tab stop, the second TAB to the second tab stop, etc. Thus, each line can contain a set of fields and you can control how much space each field gets. This control is on a per-buffer basis, but applies to the entire buffer. Lines containing no tabs get the full width of the window, as usual. If you think this is useful, then please tell me how you would use it. I'm looking for applications, not a head count.