On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 15:58 -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 02:55:46PM -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: > > > > Sadly, some people have not yet realized that there is no editor but Vim > > and Bram is it's maintainer. Looking at the screen, without moving the > > cursor, can you tell the difference between spaces and tabs? No. If > > anyone is so foolish as to change the width of a tab, you will get > > mixtures of tabs and spaces that don't align the same in everyone's > > If anyone is so foolish as to mix spaces and tabs, then yes. Otherwise, > you'll get the flexibility of changing the indentation on your own editor > without have to change the code. > > Optimizing for the lowest common denominator is not really optimal, and it > may fit your situation better, but not everybody's.
Foolish? You can glance at the screen and sense whether tabs or spaces
were used? They only settings where I can see tabs being workable is a
corporate environment with an enforce coding style or when using
automatted formatting tools like the indent command.
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