Jon S. Berndt wrote: > mess. In the real world, tabs are a bad idea. With modern editors, you can > configure the tab key and autoindentation to work very well generating only > spaces - and what you see is what you get. Tabs are invisible and look like > spaces to the eye, unless you cursor through them. > > Jon >
I recall asking WordStar to do many a Find/Replace to swap grouped spaces with the tab character on source files... but that was assembler code on CP/M machines where the trade of many ASCII 20H to a few 09H meant squeezing more bytes on the 1 MB, 8 inch floppy. These days, that's not an issue. But tabs in source can be, especially when spaces are mixed in. In a collaborative project, spaces *will* get mixed in whether any one person likes it or not. The two, together, cause ugliness. So why not fully embrace the wonderful and (almost) free 0x20? As quoted above, any *modern* source editor will be happy to auto-indent to your columnar preference using tabs or spaces... but please save your tabs for the IBM Selectric(tm) typewriter, where seeing the platen rocket to the side without *quite* tipping the desk over can be quite exciting ;) -- Reagan Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
