Hi,

I was just mislead by mg(1) manpage, which mentions no-tab-mode as an
available command. But you get it only if you look at source and
manually compile with -DNOTAB.

Last time the topic was touched here:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=133727367821401&w=2

> no-tab-mode looks a bit buggy. Especially if you toggle it on/off.
> imo, no-tab-mode should get fixed, then the NOTAB's removed.

Tried it by compiling with NOTAB, and completely agree - toggling this
mode looks weird (tabs turning into ^I escapes and vice versa when
pressing a key after switching the mode).

While no-tab-mode is not improved and enabled by default, I think it's
better to comment it out from manpage, so that less people are looking
for non-existing command. Is anybody interested in this mode? If yes,
I could look into this at some spare time.

Index: usr.bin/mg/mg.1
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/mg/mg.1,v
retrieving revision 1.88
diff -u -p -r1.88 mg.1
--- usr.bin/mg/mg.1     2 Apr 2014 20:32:00 -0000       1.88
+++ usr.bin/mg/mg.1     3 Nov 2014 10:46:45 -0000
@@ -691,9 +691,9 @@ Assumes tabs are every eight characters.
 Move forward
 .Va n
 lines.
-.It no-tab-mode
-Toggle notab mode.
-In this mode, spaces are inserted rather than tabs.
+.\" .It no-tab-mode
+.\" Toggle notab mode.
+.\" In this mode, spaces are inserted rather than tabs.
 .It not-modified
 Turn off the modified flag in the current buffer.
 .It open-line

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