On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:35 PM, <"none <"@easysw.com> wrote: > Greg Ercolano schrieb: >> The reason not to redefine tabs are that tabs are 8 in every >> conceivable context except editors where they are changed. > > there is no need to redefine tabs as they are not needed to replace spaces! > >> So no other medium will show those files correctly unless >> their tabstops are all changed too. > > thats wrong! > all files are rendered correct independent from actual tab display width
Only with a sufficiently loose definition of correct :) If you wrap to 80 columns with 2 space tabs but I look at the file with 8 space tabs, it won't be 80 columns anymore. This isn't theoretical, it happens all the time and it's annoying. _______________________________________________ fltk-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk-dev
