Xah Lee wrote: > Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code > > Xah Lee, 2006-05-13 > > In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or > spaces for code indentation. <snip> > (2) Due to the first reason, they have created and > propagated a massive none-understanding and mis-use, to the degree that > many tools (e.g. vi) does not deal with tabs well
:set ts=<n> Yeah, that's really tough. vi does just fine handling tabs. vim does an even better job, with mode-lines, = and :retab. In my experience, the people who complain about the use of tabs for indentation are the people who don't know how to use their editor, and those people tend to use emacs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
