Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anton Shepelev Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.lang.clipper,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:51:31 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: <20170621005131.3a80ed65ff72d9119bccfa73@gmail.com> References: <199qat1lcmdkc$.lmbpz7dj77lx.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6d904825c87e798027e3545669b2dc96"; logging-data="3875"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19GtTq9G9BF6gM+ACTzapGvJ9+LJ71NhuA=" X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.24.23; i686-pc-mingw32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DNRmbqfHeda9eu9aNmRXUU/3XNs= Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:7869 comp.lang.clipper:1316 comp.lang.c:112740 comp.lang.ada:33891 JJ: > Tab characters are annoying. They messes the cur- > sor's column position when it's being moved > up/down and through the middle of the non existing > space which was generated by the tab character. There is a standard convention that works 100% of the time: Indent with tabs Align with spaces Such code will look good regardless of the tab width used in the editor, so that each programmer may set up whatever tab width he prefers. -- () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ http://preview.tinyurl.com/qcy6mjc [archived]