On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Note: I've redirected this to -chat. This thread
does *not* belong on the -questions list.
Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote:
> William Gordon Rutherdale wrote:
In all of those cases, I simply press the <Tab> key to
indent, and the <Backspace> key to dedent. There is no
need to change habits. The editor takes care of it.
I assume that every modern editor can be configured that
way.
Since this is in chat, I guess I feel okay about making a fool
of myself. Not everybody wants to deal with every week's new
set of script kiddle gobbleygook. I hold a BSCS from the
"late cretaceous" of 1989. After that I started studying
molecular biology under the mistaken assumption that the
blythering human race would stop idiotically barrelling into
oblivion chopping off the icecaps at breakneck speed. Currently,
having idioticaly tried to get back into computer science, I am
enrolled in an MSCS at San Francisco State University. I keep
crashing my kernels and keep getting insulted and rejected by
the "online open source community" so I guess take what I have
to say with a grain of salt.
I learned the vi editor in 1985 and I am comfortable living on
command lines without this "modern editor" nonsense. I have to
say contemplating getting fired because some tyrant is going
to bite my head off for failing to look at page 1234 of the documentation
that clearly states that I MUST use a "modern editor" that will
automate tabbing of my code makes me want to blow my head off
right now and save the damn world the trouble.
Best regards
Oliver
PS: Personally I think that the tab character (ASCII 9)
should die. It is a vestige of the IT middle ages, it has
no right to exist anymore today, and it only causes problems.
The very existence of this thread proves this point.
I am now very confused. I thought I was arguing with this person,
and now it appears we agree. Next, I'll be arguing with myself.
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