DOS, UNIX and tabs

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <mailman.2163.1167518010.32031.python-list at python.org>, Paul McNett
wrote:

>> Did you try to open your code files with another editor, which has a
>> different length for tabulator chars? It would look quite ugly, I
>> guess...
> 
> Actually, no. Everyone can choose their own number of spaces-per-tab and
> it'll look right, as long as everyone uses a monospace font.

You never tried that with tabs plus additional spaces to line up e.g.
arguments that are broken across lines, right?

And there are a number of environments where you can't change the length
of a tab like email or terminals where code will be displayed from time to
time for example as diffs from a version control system.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch