On Tue 14 Dec 2004 15:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dominic Mitchell) wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:21:50PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > On 14 Dec 2004, at 11:26, Clayton, Nik wrote:
> > >To be honest, I don't care if someone's house style is for TAB to
> > >indent
> > >2, 4, or 8 characters; how much second level indentations are indented
> > >by;
> > >whether or not braces cuddle 'else'; and so on.
> > >
> > >That's something the editor can care about. When I hit the TAB key it
> > >should just do whatever the house style requires.
> >
> > But what about when I'm using notepad.exe???
>
> Or an even more common example, my laser printer? Tabs are 8 spaces.
> Printers know this. Terminals know this. Even browsers know this. Do
> the world a favour and don't tell your editor otherwise.
I /think/ he means what the tab key's effect is when typed in his editor of
choice
most vi clones have some knowledge about using the tab key on the start of a
line, translating it to shiftwidth, which can be any number. That the editor
replaces every amount of spaces (default 8) with a tab should not be the
coders problem. Some editors also have the option to not use tabs at all and
expand all leading whitespace to spaces.
I /think/ that is what Nik meant. But we're adrift here. This was not the
subject of the original post.
[ If you're using notepad, you're not a real coder.
vim/elvis is also available on winblows ]
Kane has a sig that sais:
real coders use
cat >a.out
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