Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If tabs and spaces are combined for indentation purposes, then when
> you change your tab display width you will see a horrid mess of
> incorrectly indented code.
This is often, but not always the case. I explained how tabs and
spaces are combined so that changing the tab display width will avoid
a horrid mess of incorrectly indented code.
To wit, consider this piece of code, based on tab width = 4:
for(;;) {
if (a == b) {
some_long_function_name(a,
b);
}
}
I used spaces only in this message, please pretend that my style of
mixing tabs and spaces was used. Changing tab display width to 8
will then produce this:
for(;;) {
if (a == b) {
some_long_function_name(a,
b);
}
}
Changing it to 2 will produce this:
for(;;) {
if (a == b) {
some_long_function_name(a,
b);
}
}
Now, you may like some of them better than others, but clearly none of
them is a mess. Each of them looks as you would expect from the
tab width setting.
Kai
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