Comment 17 for bug 282234

There's a reason I'm using kwrite instead of vim or emacs. If I wanted to use vim as my default editor, I would.

If you want to have an editor that replaces tabs with spaces by default, that's fine (though strongly not my preference). It must be intuitive to get them back, though. Anything less frustrates users.

MS style access to code-points is fine and all, but if I cannot make the tab key produce x09, then something is seriously wrong. Chew on that for a minute.

(Note that I did find the answer to my problem in bug report 172950. What should be intuitively obvious is as obscure as it could possibly be. I think most non-programmers still wouldn't be able to figure it out, let alone find the solution.)

The mantra that should be followed: Get out of my way and let me work!