On 03/06/2011 20:15, Timon Gehr wrote:
Daniel Gibson wrote:
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If you use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment the tabsize
doesn't matter.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SmartTabs
Taken the words out of my mouth there. I've been faced with files that are a mishmash of
tabs and spaces, and been tidying them up to this style.
The problem is that some editors will, when you indent a block of code, change the
alignment spaces back into tabs. Though I do find that feature useful as a first step in
cleaning up sources that are in a total mess in terms of tab/space indentation. At work
we use Visual Studio, but when I find that a source file needs tidying I would open it in
Notepad++ as it behaves in this way. I also tend to use its Trim Trailing Space feature
quite often....
Stewart.
