Tabs and spaces (style)

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Tue May 1 17:18:15 EDT 2001


Tue, 01 May 2001 21:04:36 GMT, Brett g Porter <BgPorter at NOartlogicSPAM.com> pisze:

>> Why would anyone use a different tab size than 8?
> 
> ...because research has shown that programmers are more effective when an
> indent width between 2 and 4 characters is used?

I'm not talking about indent size but about physical tab size. For
a tab size it's more important to have a universal convention than
to match the indent size.

(I use the indent size of 4 and usually don't use tabs.)

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