Ugh. That usually leads to a big mess, typically when you have multiple
people working on a single piece of source code, using Emacs, vi,
multi-edit, and who knows. Leave them at some designated number(4 or 8
are 'typical' but not wanting to start a flame war over 4 vs 8) or save
them as spaces(again, at an agreed upon number) or you'll find
yourselves using emacs or indent to reformat code more than you'd like
just to make it readable again.
My .02c :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:14:13PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> > Tab stops should always be 8 characters. The indent level is entirely
> > a matter of personal preference.
> >
> > IOW, if you want to indent by something other than 8 spaces, use
> > spaces. Don't create source files which require the tab width to be
> > set to something other than 8.
>
> actually I think its better to change the width of your tabs in the editor.
> that way it has the "correct" tab width for indentions for everyone...
>
> my $.02
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