Hi Dave,

Tab settings  =3D [OT]
Email clients =3D [OT]

Bob

On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:35 -0400, "Dave Tweed" wrote:
> 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.
> >=20
> > 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 stop=
s
> > are set or where it inherits them from.
> >=20
> > 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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> It doesn't matter what the "tab stops" are. As long as there is a tab
> character there, there should be some visible evidence of it; otherwise,
> OE is just broken.
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> The "standard interpretation" of tab characters is that they count as
> whitespace, which is all we're concerned about here.
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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 som=
eone
> > 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 comm=
on
> > sense, including not leaving tabs in code.
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> But your stated standard is what's acceptable to the standard Microchip
> assembler, and the code as posted meets that standard. The fact that you
> can't
> see that it meets that standard -- and then you complain about this to
> the
> list, time after time, rather than simply ignoring the post altogether --
> is
> what makes you look foolish.
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> If you can be bothered to post a reply, then you can be bothered to click
> "View --> Message Source" (IIRC) first.
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> -- Dave Tweed
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