On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:13:38PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Micha Feigin said... > > 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 or my editor may not let you set the tab display size. > > > > > Pretty lame editor. Get a real one. > > It's not just editors though. To view a file, most of the time I'll use > less(1). Other times I'll cat(1) it to an xterm and use the scrollback > buffer. When printing, mostly I'll use a2ps(1), but sometimes use > mpage(1) or just send the text to lpr(1). > > These are just the programs I use. Others will undoubtedly use other > programs. All these programs are going to need a consistent way to deal > with tab expansion. > > I dont mind people using tabs as long as the tab stop is set to 8 - > because that's what all programs expect as a default. >
And thats what I do. Tabs at 8 indentation at 4. > I still prefer to avoid tabs, though. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]