From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-01T01:15:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Style question

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: Style question


> I decided some time ago not to be a slave to the language, but
> to be a slave to my editor. :)

:) Perhaps that goes along with Dave and Andy's doctrine of
"Use one editor well."
 
> I have chosen the lowest common demoninator, ie, I use spaces
> instead of tabs and I use {} instead of do end. This lets
> me edit easily whether I use vi, vim, gvim, emacs, 
> emacs+ruby extensions, etc, and have my code still look uniform
> in any editor,

I'll certainly agree with you on the tabs. I know that
many people use them at the rate of one per second, but
to me they are the curse of mankind (that and the missing
carriage return at the end of a UNIX line).

I'm going to be forced to learn to script (or whatever) in vim 
just so I can fix the tab-happy HTML thing.

Hal