On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 10:03 -0500, Mitchell Mebane wrote: > I've always wondered, why not tabs? Any decent text editor can display > tabs however wide someone wants them to be. Wouldn't that solve the > whole problem? Or is there some other problem with tabs that I'm > missing?
In fact, if editors wouldn't have allowed such a thing, we would be in a much saner state now. Why not tabs: -- the standard is 8 -- many common editors do not support tab redefinition (e.g. notepad) -- tools assume 8 (cvsweb, viewcvs, etc) -- printers always print it as 8 -- you don't want to setup your editor before actually doing work -- if people mix tabs and spaces (and they do) the output is not sane Tab is 8 spaces. -- Dimi Paun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lattica, Inc.
