The poor definition of tabs has caused plenty of grief. After
this mail I think I will switch to spaces from now on.


Good post,
John Chung





--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PIC] EEPROM Read Problems
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 2:30 AM
> > By now people really should know not to put tab
> characters in files you
> > expect others to look at, especially when they are
> asking them to do so as
> a
> > favor.
> 
> I agree with you about TAB-is-a-no-no, however, MPLAB's
> default is to use
> TAB. So it is for vim - the first thing usually when I
> install these to
> change this to spaces, but I doubt if too many people would
> care of this.
> 
> > Personally I think any MPASM code posted here should
> be run thru ASPIC_FIX
> > first, although I may be a tad partial.
> 
> Also if people would use vim with softtabstop set a
> pressing two chars
> ('=G') while the cursor is in the beginning of the
> file would do the trick.
> Ok, to go to the beginning of the file is also two
> pressings ('1G') so i
> guess altogether with 4 pressing is just too much
> <grin>
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Olin Lathrop
> <olin_piclist@embedinc.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Mark Rages wrote:
> > > The horizontal tab character has been in ASCII
> for 40 years.  Perhaps
> > > it is time to upgrade your mail software.
> >
> > The character is well defined but its action is not. 
> There are no standard
> > tab stops.
> >
> > By now people really should know not to put tab
> characters in files you
> > expect others to look at, especially when they are
> asking them to do so as
> > a
> > favor.  There is no way to know what tab stops are set
> on someone else's
> > system.  Since just about any editor can translate
> tabs to spaces according
> > to the tab settings at the time, there is really no
> excuse for this.
> >
> > If you insist on using some brain dead editor that
> can't convert tabs to
> > spaces, then you can always do it by post processing. 
> My freely available
> > ASPIC_FIX program does that, in addition to a few
> other things to make PIC
> > assembler source as readable as possible.  My COPYA
> program has command
> > line
> > options for converting tabs to spaces with arbitrary
> tab stops of your
> > choosing.  There are many other programs out there
> too.
> >
> > Personally I think any MPASM code posted here should
> be run thru ASPIC_FIX
> > first, although I may be a tad partial.
> >
> >
> >
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