Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates

From: SL Baur
Date: Wed Feb 27 2008 - 19:11:22 EST


On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the
> indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)?

Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly. 8 spaces and a
single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing
the text in a variable width font.

I've read all my mail in a variable width font for over a decade, at
first to watch for regressions in the XEmacs display engine, but I
continued because I liked it. I presume I'm not the only one doing
so.

-sb
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