On November 27, 2002 04:30 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
There are two problems with tabs: one is that no matter how much we agree that the tab size is 8, some people do change their editor settings and that messes up the code;
Don't get me started! :))) But thinking about it, there is good value in have the code messed up: it tells the user that their editor has an incorrect tab value. Otherwise, they can happily edit the file with a tab setting of 3, insert some tabs, and submit that.
the other is that it makes diffs harder to read because things don't line up properly due to the extra char in the first column. It's much better to only use spaces (but I'm of course not going to try to enforce that).
I realized that afterwards. In fact, in a private email I mentioned exactly this problem. I agree that it's better to use only spaces for these reasons, but in all honesty, I don't really care as long as I am not forced to define a special value for tab. <g>