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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 17:53:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] TUI: Expand TABs into spaces
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To: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
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> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:29:52 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> Is that in relation to the tabset command?
> And is that to provide a knob so that source written
> with an expectation that \t was different than 8
> can be made readable?

No.

> Or is there existing code that is coping with these
> windows, umm, quirks?

Yes.