Tab Stops
The default Qedit/UX tab stops are every 8 characters. You can override this using Set Tabs Stop n (every 2 to 15 characters). If you Exit from Qedit with the tabs set to anything other than Set Tabs Stop 8, Qedit resets your terminal to the default tab stops.
When you Text or List a file with tab characters in it, Qedit/UX does not expand them to spaces. If you want to edit lines containing explicit tab characters, see Set Vis Tab. If you want to expand tabs into spaces when Texting a file, use the Expandtabs option:
/text abcwork,expandtabs