Entering tab into text wave in a table

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Mon, 02/11/2013 - 07:02 pm

Hello all,

I have a text wave in a table and I'd like to enter a tab into one of the points of the text wave. For example, I'd like textw[0] to be "abcTABdef".

If I try to hit tab directly in the table, Igor interprets that as "I'm done editing this cell, move the cursor to the right". I've also tried control-tab, shift-tab, \t, and \\t. Is there a simple key combination?

Known work-arounds:
- Go to the command line and assign the value, e.g.: textw[0] ="abcTABdef"
- Copy a tab to the clipboard and then paste it while editing the cell in the table

I'm actually quite content with that second work-around, but I only figured it out after writing all the above. So I'm proceeding with the question!

I'm using Igor Pro 6.22A, Win XP.

Thanks,
Henry
You have found the secret. Either of your workarounds is the solution.

On Macintosh you can enter a tab by pressing option-tab but there is no equivalent on Windows.

For details execute:
DisplayHelpTopic "Tabs, CRs and Invisible Characters"

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