Path: csiph.com!news.nrbbs.org!border-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:09:22 +0000 From: steve g Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Are TABs a topic? ( was Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=9CA?= dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch [...]) References: <10tg96h$1g1mp$1@dont-email.me> <10tismt$2cmtr$1@dont-email.me> <10vnae7$35ho0$1@dont-email.me> <10vooj9$3uus7$9@dont-email.me> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:09:22 -0400 Message-ID: <87fqyaefl9.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q0Tx/USGgopyB9KJSP5qLhFgbSc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 36 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-c2p47HncYUWW/s+6Y3wduf/b8rPWXlxVIFFPGhcf/1+to0BP0brIsAvj+q9mNANCfT2aaFSNmwH21SP!ma8BWsuUWZHuWATnTPOW3X5ZB+6jEXGr48cMR8zwz7462YE= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.editors:106991 Janis Papanagnou writes: > On 2026-06-02 21:20, Mario Rosell wrote: >>> [...] >> I think TABs are cool because of this: you can set the indentation level >> to what you are used to. > > Sure. > >> also saves space if you really need to squash four bytes. > > I think this is the weakest argument for TABs; it had been weak > in former days already, and it's IMO quite ridiculous nowadays. No it is not over! I want my backtab to work like the drawing on the key Tab <----- -----> Why doesn't anyone use the backtab? never mind emacs has support for the backtab; it runs si:backtab :) > So that "Tabs vs. Spaces War" shouldn't be a topic nowadays since > we have all options in principle (but maybe not in all editors). That fight will never end; sendmail.cf has created a new generation of people that want spaces and not tab; tab should not be inserted into the user buffer because it is a gray key ? > Janis > > PS: And since I don't see the topical relevance for "C" (or C++) > I set Followup-to: comp.editors