| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sun, 9 Dec 2001 06:50:12 +0100 |
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On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:10:26PM +0100, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > My guess is that the first one was xemacs. Why, oh why, didn't the > xemacs folks make their lisps compatible? Being as I'm completely outside that particular religious war, I'll avoid commenting on fault there. You might want to read: http://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html and, back on your original question: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Oh, and fwiw, I *strongly* disagree with indent. 8-character-tabs waste a ridiculous amount of screen real estate, and programs that use tabs as "binary short hand" for 8 spaces (as emacs does) break with almost everything else out there (let's see: cat, more, less, ed, vi, grep, guess I'll stop there). I agree with JWZ: the only way to be safe if anyone else will ever look at your code is to convert all tabs to the number of spaces you think they should be when you close the file. (He's got a nice lambda function to do this in the tabs-vs-spaces document mentioned above.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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