From: Jon Guyer (jguyer@HIS.COM)
Date: 20 Oct 00, 07:02 EST
From: Jon Guyer <jguyer@HIS.COM> Subject: Re: "Tabs to Spaces" beneath Text menu At 2:19 PM -0500 10/19/00, Bob Batson wrote: >Yes, the menu item seems to be disabled. Instead of 'turn-on', I >should have written either 'activate' or 'enable'. > >In order to convert tabs to spaces in any document I've written with >Alpha 7.3, I have to select the "Tabs to Spaces" item to convert my >document. OK, I'm really confused now. If the menu item is disabled then it is grayed out and you cannot select it. If you _can_ select it, then the issue is that it doesn't do what you think it does. "Tabs to Spaces" is a command to convert the existing tab characters in your document into space characters. If what you want is for Alpha to insert some number of space characters each time you hit the tab key, then I'm not sure if there is presently a way to do that. It certainly is feasible to make Alpha act this way. Hopefully someone can direct you to an existing option for this or can provide you with a Tcl script that will achieve this. -- Jonathan E. Guyer <http://www.his.com/jguyer/>