Re: Tabs bad

Paul McNett a écrit : > Björn Lindström wrote: > >> Paul Rubin writes: >> >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes: >>> Actually using tabs for eight spaces and then filling out with spaces to the correct indentation is the convention for Emacs L

Re: Tabs bad

Björn Lindström wrote: > Paul Rubin writes: > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes: >> >>>Actually using tabs for eight spaces and then filling out with spaces to >>>the correct indentation is the convention for Emacs Lisp. Of course, >>>since everyone coding

Re: Tabs bad

Paul Rubin writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes: >> Actually using tabs for eight spaces and then filling out with spaces to >> the correct indentation is the convention for Emacs Lisp. Of course, >> since everyone coding Emacs Lisp does it with the same

Re: Tabs bad

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Björn Lindström) writes: > Actually using tabs for eight spaces and then filling out with spaces to > the correct indentation is the convention for Emacs Lisp. Of course, > since everyone coding Emacs Lisp does it with the same editor, it's no > problem. The variable `indent-tab

Re: Tabs bad

Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have never seen anyone suggest mixing tabs and spaces, and I > have read a lot of tabs-vs-spaces flamewars in my time. > > Everyone agrees that mixing is bad. I might even go so far as to > say that the only real problem is mixing. The question is, if we >

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

Steven D'Aprano enlightened us with: > It seems to me that "one tab per indent level" is far more logical > than "some arbitrary number, N, of spaces, often a multiple of > eight, or four, or two, per indent level, and hope that the number > of spaces is a multiple of that arbitrary N". But maybe t

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

Björn Lindström wrote: > Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Again, specifics would be welcome. I've been using tabs for >>indentation for over a decade, and have not once run into the horror >>stories that everyone who hates tabs says will happen, but who never >>give specifics as to how

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, [utf-8] Björn Lindström wrote: This article should explain it: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Ah, Jamie Zawinski, that well-known fount of sane and reasonable ideas. It seems to me that the tabs-vs-spaces thing is really about who controls the indentation: wi

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

On 12/4/05, Lee Harr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone agrees that mixing is bad. I might even go so far as to > say that the only real problem is mixing. The question is, if we > are trying to pick only one, which one causes fewer problems. > > For me, it is spaces. Why is it that the only p

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

> No matter what setting, the order of the indents is kept. This is not > the case if tabs and spaces are intermixed, as some style guides > suggest. > I have never seen anyone suggest mixing tabs and spaces, and I have read a lot of tabs-vs-spaces flamewars in my time. Everyone agrees that mixi

Re: Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

Björn Lindström enlightened us with: > This article should explain it: > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html To me it doesn't. I use a single tab character for a single indent levell. That is unambiguous, and also ensures the file is indented as the reader likes it. People who have thei

Tabs bad (Was: ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!)

Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Again, specifics would be welcome. I've been using tabs for > indentation for over a decade, and have not once run into the horror > stories that everyone who hates tabs says will happen, but who never > give specifics as to how they cause "problems". This a