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Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation

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On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 02/06/2014 12:36 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Roel Schroeven wrote:
>>>
>>> msustik@gmail.com schreef:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> While editing this file I accidentally pushed TAB on the line with 'y =
>>>> z
>>>> + y'.
>>>
>>>
>>> My suggestion: configure your editor to insert the appropriate amount of
>>> spaces instead of a tab when you press the tab key.
>>
>>
>> +1 - tabs are evil.
>
>
> Tabs are not evil, and an argument can be made that tabs are better (a
> decent editor can be configured to show x many spaces per tab, then users
> could decide how much indentation they preferred to see... but I digress).
>
> Using spaces instead of tabs would also have not prevented the error that
> Msustik encountered, and for that matter we don't know whether he was using
> tabs or spaces in his source file, only that he hit the Tab key -- surely
> you are not suggesting everyone rip out their tab key and just hit the space
> bar four times for each level of indentation?  ;)

The Tab key is not evil, it's the tab character (Ctrl-I). I have been
bitten by this many time when I had to work on a program written by
another. They had their tab stops set at 5 or 6, mine is set at 4, or
they did not have expandtab set, but I did. So you get either a script
that looks misaligned, but works, or one that does not look misaligned
but doesn't work. When I have to pick up someone else's script the
first thing I do is replace the tabs with spaces.

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how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-05 19:02 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2014-02-06 03:08 +0000
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:47 +1100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-05 21:23 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-06 03:09 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-06 14:49 +0000
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-06 10:51 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-06 21:29 +0100
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation msustik@gmail.com - 2014-02-06 17:20 -0800
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 12:57 +1100
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-07 23:08 +0100
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic@pke.hr> - 2014-02-08 12:11 +0100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:36 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-06 13:32 -0800
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 17:09 -0500
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 09:30 +1100
    Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Asaf Las <roegltd@gmail.com> - 2014-02-06 15:01 -0800
      Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-07 11:08 +1100
  Re: how to reduce bugs due to incorrect indentation Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2014-02-07 23:06 +0100

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