From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-03-23T21:54:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Any guides for good coding in Ruby? [OT] tabs vs. spaces

* Sascha Ebach (Mar 23, 2005 02:50):
> > What?  You want tab to equal two spaces, regardless of column?
> > Then,
> >
> >  :imap <Tab> <Space><Space>
> >
> > is what you want, but, again, are you sure that's what you want?,

> Yes, I think so. I cannot remember that I really need a tab in any
> programming language I have used. If I need a tab in my strings I can
> simply do a "\t". Do you know of any circumstance you actually _need_
> a tab?

Well, the point of the Tab character is to move you to the next
tab-stop, which is usually set to every eight columns.  This makes very
much less of a difference if the tab-stop is set to a smaller value,
e.g., less than four,
        nikolai

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