> :-( Apparently I'm not the only one. Do you think the number of > people that miss set their physical tabs is larger than the number > of people that use emacs? Why not punish the people with wrong/ > weird tabs settings over punishing people that use emacs? After > all, we can merely educate people to use softtabstop and shiftwidth > appropriately. > > If not that... could we add: > /* -*- indent-tabs-mode:nil; -*- */ > the tops of all the files or find some other way reduce the burden > for emacs users? > > Catering to people that think tabs in source files mean something > other than 8, is like catering to people that like 6 bit characters > or 60 bit words, I'd rather just laugh at them. Burdening all > developers to `do something' doesn't strike me as friendly.
I don't know what emacs has to do with this discussion. If you're confused about why tabs in source files is considered to be a bad thing by many (but not all!) people, there are extensive discussions of the topic available on the interweb. -Chris _______________________________________________ cfe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
