[PLUG] Emacs: Uneven Tab Spacing

[Rich Shepard]

   When working with text files in emacs separating strings with tabs results
in highly uneven spacing. Sometimes pressing the [Tab] key produces two line
continuation arrors before stopping half-way across the buffer screen.
Looking at the result in a v.t. using the 'joe' editor shows this variable
spacing. And, it turns out that in joe there are more than single tabs
separating many of the strings.

   The current situation is generating a tab-separated file of data for input
to an application.

   Does anyone know why this happens? Can't think of appropriate web search
terms to look for a reason.

Rich