On 08-10-18 19:43, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2018-10-08 10:36:21 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> TBH, I think that tab width should be up to the display, just like the >> font. You're allowed to view code in any font that makes sense for >> you, and you should be able to view code with any indentation that >> makes sense for you. If someone submits code and says "it looks >> tidiest in Times New Roman 12/10pt", I'm sure you'd recommend making >> sure it doesn't matter [1]; if someone submits code and says "you have >> to set your tabs equal to 5 spaces or it looks ugly", you'd say the >> same, right? >> >> How wide my indents are on my screen shouldn't influence your screen >> or your choices. > Theoretically I would agree with you: Just use a single tab per > indentation level and let the user decide whether that's displayed as 2, > 3, 4, or 8 spaces or 57 pixels or whatever. > > In practice it doesn't work in my experience. There is always someone in > a team who was "just testing that new editor" and replaced all tabs > with spaces (or vice versa) or - worse - just some of them.
Isn't that caugth in the process of commiting to version control? -- Antoon Pardon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
