indentation

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:41:08 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <010c80c2$0$20670$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
> 
>> Here's Jamie Zawinski:
>> http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
>> 
>> "On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb terminals
>> and teletypes, the tradition has been for the TAB character to mean
>> ``move to the right until the current column is a multiple of 8.''
> 
> Actually, I think that should be "multiple of 8 plus 1". If you're in
> column 1, pressing tab will move the equivalent of 8 spaces, which takes
> you column 9, not 8.

Ever noticed that computer freaks often start counting at 0?  ;-)

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch