7 Dec
2002
7 Dec
'02
5:16 p.m.
G'day all. Simon wrote:
There's no reason not to use 8 column tab stops, so please don't do it.
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:52:13PM +0100, Ingo Wechsung wrote:
Ok, if "it just looks better to me" is no reason,
As Simon pointed out, spaces and tabs are visually indistinguishable. 4-column tab stops look no different from multiples of 4-spaces, or a combination of 8-column tab stops and 4 spaces where appropriate. The only thing I can think that you mean by this is that editing code which is already formatted in 8 column indents (i.e. other peoples' code) looks better to you when formatted in 4 column indents. That may be true, but you're breaking their coding standard. Cheers, Andrew Bromage