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On 18/07/12 16:09, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Lipska the Kat
> <lipska@lipskathekat.com>  wrote:
>> hmm, I've been using tabs ...

snip

> We must meet half way, you know.

Seems reasonable to me, I'll let you suggest it ;-)

> As to tab vs spaces: I'm a fan of tabs, myself. There was an argument
> over the matter last year at work, and we settled on tabs because the
> one guy who reckons 1-2 space indent is plenty was then able to just
> set his editor to two-space tabs, and the rest of us could use a more
> reasonable width. Using tab characters in the file gives this
> flexibility. It separates the lexical structure ("this is three blocks
> in") from the visual display ("draw these glyphs 35mm from the left
> margin").

OK, I'll set my tab to 4 spaces ...

Lipska

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