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Subject: Re: Which editor do you use?
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Hi,

On Apr 8, 11:34=A0pm, "Charles Sandmann" <cwsd DOT  DOT  DOT  AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
>
> > Well, I for one *HATE* tabs in code.
>
> Smaller code size, automatic formatting. =A0I'll have your tabs. =A0I lov=
e em.
> I'm having tab tab tab tab tab tab ... (flash back to Monty Python's Spam
> sketch)

An 160k file of mine can be shrunk to 130k if I convert spaces to
tabs. But actually it .ZIPs up to approximately the same size either
way, so it's less of an issue. It's not that tabs are bad, just that
nobody handles them the same way.

> >P.S. Looking through CWS' ED sources today, I noticed lines with a LOT
> >of tabs. I'm talking about eight, nine, 10 tabs at the beginning of a
> >single line! Whew! =A0 =A0;-)
>
> Automatic indentation of program structures + complex code. =A0With tab s=
tops
> @ 3 char increments, that's only 30 characters indent...

FYI, GNU sets their tab stop to 2 char increments. So it's hard to
agree on what to use. I think this is where (GNU) indent comes in.

> But with the right editor, you can convert from tabs to spaces with a
> keystroke, so who cares?

M-x tabify or M-x untabify. Yes, it's fairly straightforward. In fact,
I think GNU Emacs will even assume any space in a regex includes tabs
as well by default. (I'm on XP right now, gonna build the latest
pretest via DJGPP.)