Kadaitcha Man ha scritto: > On 31 January 2010 22:14, Doriano Blengino > <doriano.bleng...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > >> Kad Mann ha scritto: >> >>> Doriano Blengino wrote: >>> >>>> A tab width is normally eight spaces >>>> >>>> >>> Every single one of my cites say you're completely wrong. >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key >>> www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268538/tab-versus-space-indentation-in-c >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119562/tabs-versus-spaces-in-python-programming >>> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_spaces_is_a_tab >>> http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_and_how_do_you_indent_to_begin_a_paragraph >>> http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/mail-archive/msg00000.html >>> >> Open a console, type "cat" followed by enter. Press the tab key and look >> where the cursor goes. >> > > lol - they are tab columns, not tabs. > I really don't understand you. I went to read your "cites". From wikipedia (your first link):
> unclear if any popular printers implemented this. Instead it was > rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, at every multiple of 8 > characters horizontally and every 6 lines vertically, so they simply > became a form of data compression, From your second link: > On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb terminals > and teletypes, the tradition has been for the TAB character to mean > ``move to the right until the current column is a multiple of 8.'' (As > it happens, this is how Netscape interprets TAB inside <PRE> as well.) > This is also the default in the two most popular Unix editors, Emacs > and vi. From your last link: > The draft reads: > > For this proposal, a TAB should be counted as exactly four spaces. > > That is wrong. TAB is worth 8 spaces if anything. Anyway, mixing tabs > So, while it is true that someone else prefers 4 spaces, or 5, or whatever, there is a lot of people, and history, that say that a tab is eight spaces wide. Therefore, I am not "completely wrong". Moreover, you still confuse tabulators with indentation, which is traditionally matter of religious war; but, staying there, even Linux Torwalds says "indentation is 8 characters" (read, man, read...). You have an exquisite understanding of english, but perhaps lack the understanding of concepts; more likely, you simply read too fast. BTW, I wrote to you privately some days ago - did you receive my email? BTW2: where do you live, if you care? Just my curiosity... it helps me to imagine a real person behind these emails. Regards, Doriano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user