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Re: Replace Tab with 8 Spaces for .py files (issue4627062)
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Matthias Kilian |
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Re: Replace Tab with 8 Spaces for .py files (issue4627062) |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:49:02 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.3i |
[slightly offtopic tab size rant ;-)]
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 04:44:21PM +0100, Graham Percival wrote:
> In the old/bad style that emacs produced, one tab was used to
> represent 8 spaces. Yes, it was doubly confusing.
Well, no. People and/or editors who used one tab per indentation
level (and probably fiddling with the displayed *tab* width other
than 8 spaces) where confused.
Whenever I see any file that needs a tab width other than 8 spaces
to display correctly (be it programs, be it configuration files),
I get *very* upset.
That said, as people today don't know the difference between tab
width and indentation, it's still good to forbid tabs at all in
lilypond ;-)
Ciao,
Kili
ps: when I started working on unix (in the late 80ths), I abused
tabs for indentation, too. But it took me only a few months to
recognize that error.