On Aug 1, 2007, at 10:05 , david48 wrote:
On the topic of indenting, it would be nice if there was a way to tell the compiler the size of the tab characters.
The way it is now, I have to use space characters to indent.
The problem with that is, while there's a standard for the width of a tab on Unix, there isn't on Windows. It's really only safe to use spaces for indentation. Thus, it's better to use an editor which converts tabs to spaces in a specified manner, so you can use whatever tabs you're comfortable with (or none; Emacs generally uses tab to mean "indent appropriately") but the resulting file uses spaces and will behave reliably anywhere. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH