Daniel Gibson wrote: > Am 03.06.2011 20:54, schrieb Walter Bright: >> 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. >> > > If you use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment the tabsize > doesn't matter.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs In a perfect world, everyone would do that. But if multiple people are working on the same source, one of them will mess up the formatting...
