On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, John Kohl wrote:

> Erik> At 13:22 -0700 8/21/98, gwr@netbsd.org wrote:
> Gordon> If you use REAL tabs for all indents, then the person working on
> Gordon> the file can view it and work with using any tab size they like!
> 
> Not quite, because this doesn't work.

It doesn't work for another reason as well; those of us that do
that are now creating lines that, with eight-space tabs, end at
column 105 (or whatever) rather than column 80.

> However, smart editors (emacs is among them) know how to use 4 character
> widths for indentation.

As does vi.

cjs

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