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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Bracketing: A Matter of Style
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:06:46 +0200
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Richard Slobod wrote:
> 
> 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.

Changing the tab size is a Bad Idea, because that makes the visual appearance
of the program depend on the editor used by whoever looks at the source.

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