surely 8 half spaces is better than 4 spaces. cu,
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Michael George <mdgeo...@cs.cornell.edu>wrote: > Bill Coderre wrote: > >> Is there some unix magic cookie format to explicate this exchange rate? If >> so, then the battle is mostly won, and we "merely" have to convince the >> myriad text editors to publish, honor, and obey the cookies, silently >> sorting out the indentations and replacing whichever with whatever. >> > Sure! We should just use vim modelines: vim: ts=4 sw=4 et > > That will surely avoid any pointless time-wasting religious fervor. > > > --Mike >