CVS Update: nedit(Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:58:25 ())

TK Soh teekaysoh at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 12 03:25:16 CEST 2002


--- Thorsten Haude <yoo at vranx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Scott J. Tringali <tringali at etnus.com> [02-08-11 16:23]:
> >Thorsten Haude wrote:
> >
> >> Please don't use hardware tabs at all! Tabs are *known* to be of
> >> different size.
> >
> >Though I generally agree with this, there are already plently of
> >hardware tabs that are assumed to be 8 spaces all over NEdit.
> 
> I know, and I don't propose to take them all out (not worth the
> hassle). Just please don't ask that hard tabs should be used, whatever
> the setting.

IMO, it doesn't matter much any more, the beast is already out of the cage.
Perhaps the more sensible thing to do is to educate the people on the 8-space
tabs plus, off topic, other NEdit coding convention & style - indentation,
braces, etc.

in case you are curious, there are 29279 hard tabs in the *.[ch] of REL-5-3.

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