On 2002.11.12, Peter M. Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure Dossy will join the prevailing standard, even though it's > different from his opinion.
Surely. I really don't care either way - it's just a trivial configuration of my .vimrc. > This document: > > http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html > > Includes information on how to set up emacs and vim (vi and nvi users like > me are out-of-luck) to use spaces. I wish Jamie's thinking wasn't so flawed. Let me summarize what he says: "The holy war surrounding tabs vs. spaces is all about the fact that some people want to expand tabs to 2 spaces, some to 4, some to some other level of indentation. Therefore, to end the holy war, we should stop using tabs and only use spaces and all hold hands and sing koombaya as we agree to all concede our personal preferenes and adopt the preferences of the persons with authority." I can't believe someone as smart as Jamie really said that. As I keep saying, the /true/ solution is to only use hard tabs (ASCII 0x09) and let each individual person dictate how it gets displayed. No more holy war, that way. The holy war comes from people who /use/ spaces to indent. It's all their fault. It's because of them -- especially when they all use different number of spaces to indent with -- that cause the holy war. If they'd all just use tabs, then /everyone/ could be pleased so long as everyone learns how to properly configure their own personal editor of choice. Getting everyone to untabify and agree on a specific indentation level is taking the "you will do it my way and like it" attitude, which isn't very nice. Tabifying everything says "you can view the code as you like, I can view the code as I like, and in the end when we exchange code between us, it'll display the way we individually prefer." There's no more holy war, then. The only holy war left is to get everyone to stop using spaces and varying numbers of them. > I really think this issue can turn in to a big distraction when we have so > much else to do. You're right. So, lets just drop it. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
