If you use textmate you can set the amount of spaces your tab key will
use (called soft tabs) at the bottom of the window.  As mentioned
before, Ruby/Rails gurus recommend 2 spaces per "tab" - which is
probably why HAML/SASS is two spaces.

On Jan 16, 6:12 am, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Its in the official Haml instructions to set soft-tabs... which is the
> Rails default and recommended. And, I'm pretty sure is also the Merb
> default and recommended.
>
> Two spaced "soft tabs" is recommended by most Rubyists.
>
> I like this article on the topic.http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
>
> -hampton.
>
> On Jan 16, 2008 4:32 AM, Daniel N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jan 16, 2008 5:43 PM, Nthalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I also cannot stand the wasted second keystroke.
>
> > > It kind of flies in the face of the DRY philosophy.
>
> > > Please, allow tabs.
>
> > > On Dec 5 2007, 10:41 pm, Nathan Weizenbaum < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > We'd like to make the input and output tabulation configurable
> > > > eventually. It's tricky because there's a significant amount of
> > > > two-space-specific logic that goes on with stuff like input validation
> > > > and filter reading. But eventually, maybe.
>
> > > > In the meantime, learn to love character 32 ;-).
>
> > > > - Nathan
>
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > It's torturous, yet I can't seem to pull away. But we have
> > > > > differences...I am a lover of tabs, and HAML cannot do without
> > > > > spaces...will we ever see eye to eye?
>
> > > > > (I'd love to see HAML move to a parser that can take the double-space
> > > > > and replace it with tab. Feasable?)
>
> > I just set my editor to use soft tabs with 2 spaces...  I still use the tab
> > key but I get spaces...
>
> > just my 0.02
>
> > -Daniel
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