Mind you what really surprises me is that I've *never* met anyone who prefers tabs before...? Quite an eye opener thi ;o)
Dossy wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">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 cau se 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
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