In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Here's Jamie Zawinski: > http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html > > "On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb terminals and > teletypes, the tradition has been for the TAB character to mean ``move to > the right until the current column is a multiple of 8.''
Actually, I think that should be "multiple of 8 plus 1". If you're in column 1, pressing tab will move the equivalent of 8 spaces, which takes you column 9, not 8. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
