Peter Decker wrote: > On 17 May 2006 06:51:19 -0700, Bill Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > In my experience, whenever there is a 'religious' issue like this, one > side tends to be quick to pronounce the other as 'evil', and insist > that everyone do things their way, while the other tends to feel > comfortable with people having their own preferences. If I ever find > myself on the side of the former, I always wonder if I'm missing > something obvious.
I think you unfairly snipped context on me. I was directly responding to the assertion that vi is unable to handle tabs well. As far as tabs vs. spaces, I don't think the spacers are evil, and in fact I am one for pragmatic reasons. I would much prefer to use tabs for indentation, especially since in the last few weeks I've decided to upgrade from 4 to 8, and now all of my spaced code requires much more effort than ":ts=8" to fix. But in today's world, it's easier to go with the flow and use spaces. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
