>I write all my XHTML/PHP by hand using SciTE, with 4 spaces instead of
>tabs, to line up code according to the nesting level (eg. BODY is
>indented wrt. HTML definition) - using tabs here gets very messy when
>you try and view the source due to the sheer size of them (for example,
>"view source" in many modern browsers will display tabs as 8 spaces by
>default). The alternative in these situations to having code running off
>the end of the page is to hard-wrap at 80 chars (which with tabs taking
>up 8 spaces can make things very narrow). Hence I use 4 literal spaces,
>because then I know what I\'m getting, across platforms.
>
If you often use programs where you can't change tab size to 4,
spaces are good, of course.

Piotr
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