Re: Tabs vs. Spaces

From: Karl Heinz Buchegger (kbuchegg_at_gascad.at)
Date: 05/25/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:10:19 +0200

The Mike wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Each <TAB> is just a character. I can't influence your editor on how
> many spaces it will display for each <TAB>. E.g.: if you're using the
> Vim texteditor then you could say something like ":set tabsize=4".
> Result:

Now do the same with something different:

void test( int j )
{
<tab>if( j == 5 ) {<tab><tab><tab><tab><tab><tab><tab><tab><tab>/* Check if the input is valid */
<tab><tab>printf( "Invlid input\n" );<tab> /* and barf out if not */
<tab><tab>return;
<tab>}
}

With a tabsize of 2 this comes out as

void test( int j )
{
  if( j == 5 ) { /* Check if the input is valid */
    printf( "Invlid input\n" ); /* and barf out if not */
    return;
  }
}

with a tabsize of 3 this comes out as:

void test( int j )
{
   if( j == 5 ) { /* Check if the input is valid */
      printf( "Invlid input\n" ); /* and barf out if not */
      return;
   }
} 

-- 
Karl Heinz Buchegger
kbuchegg@gascad.at

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