On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:44:49PM +0100, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
is code printing a really common thing for you ?
Not these days, I guess it went out of fashion with screen editors and terminal with >24 lines. Also with source files that are larger than a single tree :-) Actually big source listing only really work on fan-fold paper, piles of A4 sheets are not the same. In the old days we printed the source and generated code for the project - was just over a box of paper (2500 sheets fan-fold).
Since it is actually quite common to use tab to line up things that are not at the start of a line (eg structure definitions), you can only look at a file with tabs set to the same column positions as when it was written. So 8 columns tabs are good...
(OTOH I have tried to look at unix source files under M$, gave in and installed netbsd.)
David