On Dec 12, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Thomas <tho...@dateiliste.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-12-11 22:55, Warren Young wrote:
>> notepad.exe and Internet Explorer also obey the 8-character tab standard.  
>> Go tell Microsoft it is wrong, too.
> 
> I'm not sure how many people use notepad.exe to edit source code or to write 
> software from scratch,  

Notepad is the default for *.txt on Windows.  I can tell you from personal 
experience running a cross-platform open source project that there are Windows 
developers who use Visual whatever to open *.cpp and such but who let Notepad 
continue to open *.txt because it’s faster.

For those people, I switched from tabs to spaces in that project's *.txt files. 
 (And also from Unix line endings to CR+LF!)

> or Microsoft Internet Explorer for that matter. :)

I thought this thread was about how web browsers displayed tabs.  Surely IE’s 
default is relevant here.

> For Windows, I reckon it's going to be either Notepad++, Visual Studio, 
> Android Studio, Qt, Code Blocks, or or or…

You’re mixing two unrelated things: what most programmers’ text editors do, and 
what most web browsers do.  They needn’t do the same thing.  If you need them 
to do the same thing, Fossil gives you a way to make them do that.

> I'm sure it was 8 when punch cards were state of the art. I agree with you.

And it’s still true in Edge 41, Chrome 62, and Firefox 57, all released in late 
2017.

> I tried. I failed.

Put it in the body { } element.  It works here.
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