Questions tagged [tabbing]
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What are hard and soft tabs?
I hear the term "hard tabs" and "soft tabs" (often with much debate about which is better), but what do the two terms actually mean? I am looking for a simple definition of "soft tabs" and "hard tabs".

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Notepad++ Tab Settings
See Convert tabs to spaces in Notepad++
I have started on a personal quest to learn python and after following a Google lecture online the instructor advocated changing your tabs to spaces.
I have browsed around in notepad++ and gone to the…

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Can I align variables in a string with echo and bash?
I want to do formatting using echo in shell scripting.
Here is a small code snippet which is giving me the problem:
echo -en "\rFileName : $filename : $index of $lines Completed"
The $filename is a string with varying length, and this is…

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Prevent browser from re-positioning focused elements navigated to via tabbing
When you navigate through form elements or anchors using the tab key (and shift + tab) the browser automatically scrolls to that focused element. If the element is not viewable because it is a part of an overflown content where overflow is set to be…

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Tab key not working in popup in chrome extension
I have created a chrome extension that has a popup with the following HTML markup in it: