From: 71231 DOT 104 AT compuserve DOT com (Richard Slobod)
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Subject: Re: Bracketing: A Matter of Style
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 19:40:04 GMT
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Andrew Hakman <hakmana AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

>Another
>thing I hate (hope I'm not stepping on too many toes here) is using TABs for
>indents. For quite compact, yet very readable code I tend to use 2 spaces
>for indents.

But any decent editor should let you set the display size of a tab, so tabs
can in fact be 2 spaces wide if you so desire.  You can even change the tab
width on the fly according to how deeply nested the code you're currently
working on is.