On Dec 3, 2005, at 5:55 PM, Sybren Stuvel wrote: > That depends on your editor. Mine (vim) can be instructed to insert > the appropriate amount of spaces on a tab, and remove them on a > backspace.
So let's say that you are using 4 spaces as your standard, but by accident type 5. You hit backspace, which deletes 4 spaces, and you now have to mentally compute the difference in order to keep things aligned. See, I can make up bizarre scenarios where spaces cause problems, too. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list