On 4/11/2011 1:31 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
In other words, *some* editors handle space-indentation intelligently (and
do so by reinventing *tabs*), while *all* editors handle tab-indentation
intelligently.
There is no way to handle tabs intelligently.
Take a source file that has tab characters in it. There is no algorithm in the
world that will discern what the tab size is supposed to be. Heck, I've seen
plenty of source files that assume a tab size of X in some sections and Y in
others, and Z in still others.
The only way to win is to not use tabs.
