From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T09:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby?

* Jim Freeze (Mar 23, 2005 01:30):
> One problem with tabs is that people tend to mix tabs and spaces,
> then, when I set the tab to be 2-spaces, I may get 2,3 or 4 spaced
> indents.

There's no good reason to change the width of tabs.  Your editor should
be able to emulate this behaviour anyway.  In vim, to get two-space
indents:

  :set softtabstop=2 shiftwidth=2

or

  :set sts=2 sw=2

if you're lazy, and leave the 'tabstop' setting alone,
        nikolai

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