Incoming from Micha Feigin: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > > On 2004-05-28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > > > s. keeling wrote: > > >> > > >> However, this is likely only a problem for those of us who hate tabs. > > >> Those who like tabs are blissfully ignorant of the problems they > > >> cause. Thankfully, we've found ways to deal with this ridiculous > > >> preference of yours (man expand, man unexpand, perldoc Text::Tabs, > > > > > > What kind of problems do using tabs cause? > > > > Your editor may not display tabs as the same number of characters as my > > editor does. > > Then set it to that if you wish to read the file. Both vim and emacs as
Sigh. Now I have to run to a manpage just to be able to read your file? > > Your or my editor may not let you set the tab display size. > > Pretty lame editor. Get a real one. Now you get to decide what software I use?!? > > I may or may not feel like changing my tabwidth settings just to read > > Then don't read the g*dd*mn code if you don't want to. Count on it! -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]