>>I suggested using tabs only for indentation, so it really doesn\'t
>>matter if it\'s 4 characters, 8 characters, 1 cm or whatever.
>
>indentation is a semantic aspect of tabs, or groups of spaces, and
>to decide if it is indentation or not, you\'ll need some interpretion by
>some analysers(lexers) in conjunction with codestyle guidelines.

Indentation == leading whitespace, except for "here" documents
and multiline strings in Perl and other languages that support them.
For languages like C or Java you don't need a lexer to recognize
what is indentation.

>The automaitc indendation by scite can be configured as tabs, as I
>remenber. Ahh, now I understand. You'll expect only tabs to be
>recongnized as indention if scite looks for the indention of the
>line before to calculate the automatic indention of the current line.
>right?

I don't expect anything. We're just discussing the use of tabs vs spaces.

Piotr
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