Tabs vs. spaces (was: cvs commit: blah blah blah)

[Kief Morris]

Jon Stevens typed the following on 06:50 PM 4/10/2001 -0700
>
>Craig, does this mean you (finally) aren't using tabs anymore? :-)
>

So, are spaces kosher? The Sun coding standards document (which is the
official Jakarta guideline?) says either is OK, but the mixed tabs and spaces
format I've found in the Catalina code I've mucked with is a PITA. Can I just
set my editor to use 4 spaces for tabs and reformat files I work with
accordingly, without spawning a jihad?

Kief