From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2012-04-29T22:37:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Global variable for spaces per tab?

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On Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:48:14 AM UTC-4, Brian Candler wrote:
>
>
> I'm afraid not, it's entirely application-specific. For example, I 
> believe vim and emacs let you embed a magic comment in the text file 
> which says how many spaces to display a tab as. 
>
> For the shell utility, look at the expand(1) manpage. On OSX this says: 
>
>      -t tab1,tab2,...,tabn 
>              Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. 
> If only 
>              a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of 
> column 
>              positions apart instead of the default number of 8. 
>
> So in the absence of any better info, I'd go with 8. 
>


Ok, thanks. I might go with 2 b/c it's Ruby indention tradition. OTOH, 
maybe unindent method should ignore tabs altogether.


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On Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:48:14 AM UTC-4, Brian Candler wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><br>I'm afraid not, it's entirely application-specific. For example, I 
<br>believe vim and emacs let you embed a magic comment in the text file 
<br>which says how many spaces to display a tab as.
<br>
<br>For the shell utility, look at the expand(1) manpage. On OSX this says:
<br>
<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;-t tab1,tab2,...,tabn
<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Set tab stops at column positions tab1, tab2, ..., tabn. 
<br>If only
<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;a single number is given, tab stops are set that number of 
<br>column
<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;positions apart instead of the default number of 8.
<br>
<br>So in the absence of any better info, I'd go with 8.
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ok, thanks. I might go with 2 b/c it's Ruby indention tradition. OTOH, maybe unindent method should ignore tabs altogether.</div><div><br></div>
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