At 2002-08-23 16:28, Glynn Clements wrote:

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Pedantry aside, I agree with your presumed meaning. The magic number is 8. If anyone wishes to believe otherwise, then fine; so long as they don't expect the rest of the world to share their delusion.

Feh. There ought to be a "tabwidth" parameter for MIME text/plain, however as far as I know there isn't.

If you want to look at my source properly, you'll have to set it to 4. My code, my choice.

Much as I hate to add to this debate, tab stops are every 8 columns. If you want tab stops every 4 columns, use spaces - any reasonable editor can do this. Cheers, Simon