On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 05:49:28 +0000, Nobody wrote: >> The size-8 tabs look really bad in an editor configured with tab size 4, >> as is common in Windows. I'm concluding that the CPython programmers >> configure their Visual Studio's to *nix convention. > > 8-column tabs aren't a "*nix convention"; that's been the norm since > the mechanical typewriter.
Okay, as everyone has pointed out, it's not quite that old. I've seen typewriters with fixed tabs, but I'm not certain that they were at 8 columns, and even if they were, it wasn't common enough to be a standard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
