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Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen

From Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen
Date 2026-05-08 07:57 +0100
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Chris M. Thomasson wrote:

[snip]

> Fwiw, I always try to setup my editors to treat the TAB key as four 
> spaces....

I like mine to emulate a real typewriter - so the tab key moves to the 
next tab position - usually a multiple of 8 spaces.

-- 
Graham J

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    Re: “A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures” by Raymond Chen Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2026-05-08 14:14 +0300
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    Re: A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures by Raymond Chen Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2026-05-08 18:32 -0500
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