Re: spaces before tabs (yuck!)

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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