Re: AW: AW: Editor Tab Expansion

2002-12-07 Thread D. Tweed
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Ingo Wechsung wrote: Beg your pardon, Marcin But they are compatible because there is one most universally accepted interpretation of a tab (move to the next multiple of 8 columns). Any other interpretation hampers portability and should be avoided. No. It didn't

Re: AW: Editor Tab Expansion

2002-12-07 Thread Andrew J Bromage
G'day all. On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:40:28PM +0100, Ingo Wechsung wrote: No. It didn't hamper portability with C, Java, Perl or any other *nix stuff since more than 30 years except with COBOL, Python (?) and Haskell, [...] Add to that: Fortran, Occam and Makefiles. There's probably also a