Re: indenting

From	Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.programming
Subject	Re: indenting
Date	2012-12-15 12:16 +0000
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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> Well, there is one argument against tabs. ASCII HT is 8 spaces wide, which
> far too much. This tempts people to change the tab width in the IDE from
> the ASCII standard to 2, 3, 4, whatever, keeping HT in the source. This
> opens gates of hell.

The tab character is interpreted however the text editor is configured to 
interpret it, and you will be hard pressed to find an IDE that doesn't let 
the user configure how tabs are interpreted.  

It's possible some underdeveloped text editors don't let the users configure 
how tabs are handled, but that would be the exception instead of the norm, 
and a waking call to look for an upgrade.

Rui Maciel

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indenting bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-12-14 13:47 -0800
  Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-15 15:40 +1300
    Re: indenting "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-12-15 09:10 +0100
      Re: indenting Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-12-15 04:10 -0600
      Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 11:17 +0000
      Re: indenting Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-12-15 12:16 +0000
        Re: indenting "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-12-15 12:29 +0000
          Re: indenting Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-16 08:29 +1300
  Re: indenting rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-12-15 13:23 +0000
  Re: indenting treetaxi <noreply@treetaxi.invalid> - 2012-12-15 19:28 -0700
    Re: indenting Thomas Mlynarczyk <thomas@mlynarczyk-webdesign.de> - 2012-12-16 20:54 +0100

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