On 5/15/06, Chris Klaiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem comes when the author prefers a smaller tab width than what my > editor is set to. Sure, I could change it for that file, but what if I'm > reading a whole directory? Sure, I could change the default setting in my > editor, but what if I'm browsing multiple projects in the same day? Sure, I > could find a way to set the tab width based on the directory I'm currently > in, but by now I'm annoyed and simply replacing tabs with spaces is a far > simpler solution that requires zero configuration on my part.
Funny, I was going to say that the problem is when the author prefers a font with a differntly-sized space. Some of us got rid of editing in fixed-width fonts when we left Fortran. -- # p.d. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list