At 16:07 18/06/2002 -0700, Scott Dattalo wrote:
>On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>
><snip>
>
> > At the end I think I'm going to adopt the following:
>
>And now I think you'll see the opinions come spewing in from all angles...

That's what I wanted :))


> > - only tabs, no spaces. 4-spaces per indentation level.
>
>I personally prefer spaces and no tabs. Why? because there is no standard

In fact I made a mistake above. What I actually meant is only
spaces, no tabs. Tabs may look different according to the settings
everyone has and I don't want to depend on that.

>tab spacing, but 8 is the most common. However, if you display your
>4-space tabs as 8-space tabs, the document will look very messy. (Not to
>mention, the piclist archive of your tabbed files will look horrible).

:)

Thanks!
G.


>OTOH, If I know your files are formatted with tab equal to 8 spaces, I can
>run expand/unexpand (unix utilities) to fix it.
>
>Scott
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