On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:21:50PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2004, at 11:26, Clayton, Nik wrote:
> >To be honest, I don't care if someone's house style is for TAB to 
> >indent
> >2, 4, or 8 characters; how much second level indentations are indented 
> >by;
> >whether or not braces cuddle 'else'; and so on.
> >
> >That's something the editor can care about.  When I hit the TAB key it
> >should just do whatever the house style requires.
> 
> But what about when I'm using notepad.exe???

Or an even more common example, my laser printer?  Tabs are 8 spaces.
Printers know this.  Terminals know this.  Even browsers know this.  Do
the world a favour and don't tell your editor otherwise.

-Dom

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