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Subject: Re: Which editor do you use?
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:54:43 -0500
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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message 
news:af0613ba-f8f4-4a12-aa4c-bf6d59f477b7 AT k2g2000yql DOT googlegroups DOT com...
>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.

1) Files with tabs compile directly (30K always saved, can't say the same 
about compressed files)
2) That 30K reading and writing from disk on editors adds up over the years
3) The compile speed is marginally faster since there are fewer chars to 
process
4) I'll haunt you *FOREVER* if you say disk space is cheap and it doesn't 
matter ;-)

>> Automatic indentation of program structures + complex code. With tab 
>> stops
>> @ 3 char increments, that's only 30 characters indent...

>It's not that tabs are bad, just that nobody handles them the same way.
>FYI, GNU sets their tab stop to 2 char increments.

Code still looks OK with tab stops a 2 chars, or 3 chars, or 4 chars ....
With a "default" 8 chars you need a wide screen to see it.  But all real
programmers have at editor windows least 132 chars wide ... :-)

YMMV, but I'll stick to tabs.  Upgrade your tab stops or editor if it
bugs you.