Re^2: Vi

[Maarten Litmaath]

leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
\...
\#! /bin/sed -f
\...
\	s/\(\n\)\([^	][^	][^	][^	][^	]\)	/\2   \1/
\...
\/......................................................................../!{
\...

Leo's sed `solution' makes 2 things clear:

	1) sed ought to have C escape sequences like '\t'
	2) sed ought to have some kind of `run' specifier
	   - quick: how many dots did Leo put on the `/<dots>/!{' line?

Ad 1: one should AVOID putting a HARD TAB in human-readable code, where using
the APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF SPACES would NOT have the SAME EFFECT.
Indentation: OK.
Example: in shell scripts use

	tab=`ctrl I`
	..."$tab"...

instead of

	..."	"...
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