> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 7:16 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [jtc] tabs policy??
>
>
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
>
> > That just leads to formatting problems because people don't
> understand
> > that. If you must have tabs, they should be the same as
> the indention
> > level, not some factor of the indention level. This
> doesn't have to be
> > complicated. One tab == one indention level.
>
> I'm not sure I understand how you reached that conclusion, but this is
> what causes all the curent problems ( and the reason for people to
> consider tabs as "evil" ).
>
> Tab size is 8 - or at least used to be before the idea that you can
> "configure" this. What's "evil" is the fact that some editors
> allow you to
> change the size of the tab.
>
> In a text you can have multiple indentation levels, and it's
> true that on
> some typewriters you can use the TAB key to move to the next
> indentation
> level
On real typewriters, the TAB key (used for TABles) moved to the next TAB
stop, which could be anywhere on the line. It would make a nice thumping
noise when the carriage hit the stop, too. The notion that tabs == some
number of spaces is a modern aberration stemming from DECWriters having tab
stops every 8 spaces. They also, perversely, would execute a carriage return
when issued a newline.
<g>
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