From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: spaces before tabs (yuck!)
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2015 11:14:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7flxkamj.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 563A2A20.8050600@kendallshaw.com
> 2. No one but the person who inserted the tab character will ever
> read or edit the file and they will never use a program that uses
> a different amount of horizontal space to represent the character
> than any other program.
[...]
> It is causing confusion and extra work for everyone in the future
> to use a tab character in a text file. It is anti-social
> behavior.
The flip side is that using anything but a width of 8 columns to
represent TABs is causing confusion and is anti-social behavior.
In any case, if you seriously worry about TAB-vs-SPC, your social life
is probably sufficiently limited that any anti-social behavior you might
display won't affect too many people ;-)
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-04 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-04 0:10 spaces before tabs (yuck!) Hikaru Ichijyo
2015-11-04 0:24 ` Kaushal Modi
2015-11-04 2:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-11-04 15:54 ` Kendall Shaw
2015-11-04 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2015-11-04 17:21 ` Kendall Shaw
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