Expanding and Compressing Tabs

(For all intents and purposes, this project is dead, but let us just call it "Deferred Indefinitely". Shall we?)

Problem

You want to be able to convert tabs to spaces and back again.

while (string.gsub!(/\t+/) {' ' * length($&) * 8 - length($`) % 8})
  # do nothing
end

or look for equivalent of perl's Text::Tabs. FIX

TODO: DISCUSSION

TODO: LIST_OF_OTHER_PROGRAMMING_LANG_METHODS

TODO: LIST_OF_RELATED_ITEMS

Status: In Progress