Re: Tabs are *EVIL*, end of discussion. (Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code)

2006-05-17 Thread achates
Andy Sy wrote: >Don't be evil - always configure your editor to >convert tabs to true spaces. Yet another space-indenter demonstrates that problem actually lies with people who think that tab == some spaces. >And I, for the life of me, have never remembered >getting any source code to display pr

Tabs are *EVIL*, end of discussion. (Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code)

2006-05-17 Thread Andy Sy
Please... just stop this senseless defense of a Rube-Goldberg feature. There will NEVER be a universal agreement on whether tabs should be 2, 3, 4 or 8 spaces in width, and this causes endless tweaking of editor settings (a *humongous* waste of time) to handle source code made by other programmers

Tabs are evil, end of discussion. (Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code)

2006-05-17 Thread Andy Sy
Harry George wrote: > This has been discussed repeatedly, and the answer is "If you only > work alone, never use anyone else's code and no one ever uses your > codes, then do as you please. Otherwise use tab-is-4-spaces." > > When you do Agile Programming with people using emacs, vim, nedit, > x