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Re: spaces before tabs (yuck!)
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: spaces before tabs (yuck!) |
Date: |
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 11:14:51 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> 2. No one but the person who inserted the tab character will ever
> read or edit the file and they will never use a program that uses
> a different amount of horizontal space to represent the character
> than any other program.
[...]
> It is causing confusion and extra work for everyone in the future
> to use a tab character in a text file. It is anti-social
> behavior.
The flip side is that using anything but a width of 8 columns to
represent TABs is causing confusion and is anti-social behavior.
In any case, if you seriously worry about TAB-vs-SPC, your social life
is probably sufficiently limited that any anti-social behavior you might
display won't affect too many people ;-)
Stefan