On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:43 -0600, Nathan Garza wrote: > On 7/5/05, Andrew McNabb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now you've got me started! > > > > The convention for tab is 8 characters. To get along with the rest of > > the world, don't try to mess with that. > > But why ? Why do they have to be 8 characters? That's just tooooooo long >
Because a long time ago they were defined to be 8 spaces and every attempt since then to change their size has resulted in useless and annoying breakage. -- Stuart Jansen e-mail/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden
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