On 1 February 2010 20:37, Doriano Blengino <doriano.bleng...@fastwebnet.it> wrote: > 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): >
Tab columns can be any width. A tab column can be 2 or 20 characters. Seeing as a terminal is nominally 80 characters wide, each tab column is 8 spaces apart, giving 10 tab columns. That each tab column is 8 spaces apart in a terminal does not imply that "A tab width is normally eight spaces." It just so happens that that is default for a terminal, chosen by the developers, a default that can be changed using setterm -tabs By your own logic, if a document is 120 characters wide and has two tab columns then you'd have to claim a tab was 60 characters wide. There is no correspondence between a tab and the number of spaces it naturally consumes. The number of spaces a tab should rightly consume is entirely dependent on the visual characteristics. That is why Gambas has a default of less than 8 spaces for a tab, otherwise the code would look ridiculous. So, to summarise, a tab is as many spaces wide as is needed to make the text look correct. It is not "normally eight spaces". > BTW, I wrote to you privately some days ago - did you receive my email? Yes, thank you. > BTW2: where do you live, if you care? Just my curiosity... I'm an Aussie living in Indonesia. > it helps me to imagine a real person behind these emails. I'm not real. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
