Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any strong reason to use tabs? They made sense when disk space was scarce, > source was distributed uncompressed, and all terminals and printers ran at > low bit rates and agreed on tab stops. Now every editor seems to have a > different idea of what a tab is, and no one uses output devices with really > slow feeds. So what's left to justify indenting with actual tab characters?
It's not at all about disk space (I could care less about that), it's about navigating the cursor (or point) quickly in most editors. And everyone here is using an editor that supports or can support tab as 8 columns. I'm 100% in favor of tabs for leading whitespace. perltidy also supports this as an option for some time now. -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ and open source consulting
