On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:47:30 -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:

>> As far as tabstops go, well hey that's another personal preference
>> thing.  My take is that you really want to think in terms of
>> an 80-wide character terminal for editing, and you quickly run
>> out of space when you have a reasonable level of nesting if
>> you use 4.  And we'll likely have to have some serious nesting
>> in places.  So, I really don't care much what the indentation
>> increment we use is, as long as it's >1 and <3.  :^)
>> We'll probably end up having varying styles.  I'm not going
>> to lose any sleep over it.


That's why I always liked Borland's IDE.  You could define how big a tabstop
was.  Personally, my favorite is 4:  it just seemed a good compromise to me.
 But the nice thing is, anyone who likes something else could do what they
wanted!

Tim Massey



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