On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 08:54:16PM +0000, Jerry Asher wrote: > Tom Jackson writes:
> >I wonder why emacs and Xemacs use tabs at all, given the advice of most > >coding standards on using spaces. Good question. I have trouble imagining any good answer, though. > Yes I agree. A tab is a legit character, so I can see why someone making an > editor would want to support it. What's more fun (or not) is meeting up > with someone on a project that insists on using tabs in their code. Hah, I've usually addressed that with "M-x untabify" on the offending files, a cvs commit, and creating a little coding standards doc with the "tabs are evil, configure your Emacs to use only spaces" religion. Of course, I've never run across anyone who really WANTED to use tabs rather than spaces, just people who did it that way by accident without thinking, because it's the Emacs default. -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com
