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     The following diagram shows how tab characters are displayed in
     PWB, according to the settings of the Filetab and Tabdisp switches.
 
          1      8       16      24      32   Filetab:8
          ├──────┼───────┼───────┼───────┼──
          XXXXXXXXXX······XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
                    └──┬─┘
                    ▲  └───── Tab field, shown as Tabdisp:250
                    └──────── Physical tab character
 
     When white space is converted to tabs or spaces, PWB maintains the
     displayed text alignment.
     See: Entab, Filetab, Realtabs
 
     When Realtabs is set to Yes, the Tabalign switch determines how the
     cursor is positioned when it enters a tab field, as follows:
 
     Setting         Description
 
     Tabalign:yes    When the cursor enters the tab field (as you press
                     the DOWN arrow, for example), PWB repositions the
                     cursor to the physical tab character.
 
     Tabalign:no     When the cursor enters the tab field, the cursor
                     is positioned as if the entire tab field contains
                     characters.
 
     See
 
     Backtab, Filetab, Tab, Tabalign, Tabdisp, Tabstops
     ◄Entering Tab Characters►
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