Re: Tabs -vs- Spaces: Tabs should have won.

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:15 AM, rantingrick <rantingrick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 I can write my code to 80
columns using 4-space tabs, but if somebody later tries to edit the
file using 8-space tabs, their lines will be too long.

THEIR LINES is the key words. A tab control is a tab control is a (you
guessed it!) a tab control. No matter how small or large your tab
settings are the source only reflects one tab control char per press
of the tab key. Heck, people are already (unwisely) using "8-space-
spaces" and i don't hear you making the same argument.

Because the problem does not apply. If I use 4 spaces, and somebody
else opens my file who uses 8, the code will still be limited to 80
columns. They will just have to see my ugly 4-space indentation
instead of their preferred 8-space indentation. You know what? They
can cope.

Rick's answer
to this might be to just mandate that everybody uses 4-space tabs, but
then this would pretty much defeat the purpose of using tabs in the
first place.

We already mandate four space spaces so what is the difference? I'll
tell you, the difference is Freedom and Unity living in perfect
harmony.

Let me get this straight. You want us to use tabs so that individuals
can set their tab width to however many spaces they want, but then you
want everybody to set their tab widths to 4 spaces. You're
contradicting yourself here.
.

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