Re: How to change the length of "\t"?
On Jul 15, 4:54 pm, Lionel B <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:16:28 +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
Lionel B wrote:
Certainly not by me! The first thing I do when configuring
an editor for programming (anything) is to change the
displayed TAB width to 4 (I might
Then everyone who has his editor or viewer at the
conventional eight spaces width will see your text garbled.
Errm... I'm not with you here. I don't see other peoples' text
garbled if I change the displayed tabwidth in my editor - I
just see the same text but with tabs taking up more or less
width - so why should they see *my* text garbled? I'm not
actually changing the text at all...
The only case I can think of where garbling might be said to
occur might be where someone has formatted text - say mixing
tabs and spaces - *under the assumption* that a tab occupies 8
spaces. And that's a dumb thing to do anyway.
Using anything other than 8 for tabstops is a dumb thing, since
that's the universal defacto standard today (and you certainly
don't look at text only in an editor). If you're using an
indentation other than 8 (and 8 is too big), then you have to
use some spaces for the indentation. (Because people are stupid
enough to set tabstops in their editor at something different
than 8, I've given up using tabs at all in text files. Just
spaces, so everyone will see the code as it was meant to be
formatted.)
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