On 2010-11-04, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > On 2010-11-04, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: >> In message <slrnid0ked.t7k.usenet-nos...@guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote: >>> It is extremely useful to me to have spaces converted to tabs >>> for every other file I edit. > >> I???m thinking of going the other way. After many years of treating tabs as >> four-column steps, I might give up on them and use spaces everywhere.
I quit using tabs (except for Makefiles) about 30 years ago. > I *absolutely must* use tabs for Makefiles. And my editor (emacs) knows that. It uses tabs in Makefiles and spaces everywhere else. > For code in most other languages, it's merely a factor of 8 improvement > in storage. :) That's only true if your source code consists entirely of tabs. ;) -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
