Hi Olin,

You should have chosen this message or ones before to change the tag to
[OT]

Do not mess up [PIC] with talk of mail clients and tab settings.

Neither one of them is on topic.

Tabs versus spaces is just like emacs versus vi. At best it is religion.
At worst it is... worse, I guess.

Just to clarify,

Talk sbout mail clients =3D [OT]
Talk about tab settings =3D [OT]

Bob


On Sun, 22 May 2011 11:17 -0400, "Olin Lathrop"  wrote:
> Dave Tweed wrote:
> > Yes, the OP used hard tabs to indent his code, so it IS your client,
> > which apparently can't handle it.
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> It probably can, but it's a question of where the tab stops were set.  I
> have never set them deliberately in OE.  I have no idea how its tab stops
> are set or where it inherits them from.
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> However, the point is that there is no standard interpretation of tab
> characters, which is why they shouldn't be left in code you show others.
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> > But it's easy enough in Outlook Express to view the raw source file
> > of an email message to check. Every time you carp about this without
> > checking first makes you look foolish.
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> Leaving tabs in code is a well know stupidity.  No, when providing free
> help
> I'm not going to go out of my way to check on various stupid things
> someone
> may have done in formatting their code.  Someone asking a question here
> may
> not know about PICs, but they have some obligation to follow basic common
> sense, including not leaving tabs in code.
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