From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:31:54 -0400 Message-ID: <200710180031.54819.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> References: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> <47168E70.4070305@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jari Aalto X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 18 06:32:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IiN3o-0006dC-C4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:32:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752705AbXJREcG (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:32:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752254AbXJREcD (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:32:03 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.182]:50053 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218AbXJREcA (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:32:00 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so92187pyb for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:31:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=nPNz8UzggOtxV+MipCQGSWS4q/Zvmdrf8+593HSHn3I=; b=ROWbpLodMKLFIp/0fazGH1DPD5pmB6gBqhJIT0thNXrVheKi7r/mSK5SNIE8+0KPcsgImpmpTBvgRCcaTfY3AbTpbYYpzKxgX6fUli93Il65aIlY4ikK64PgpK7Q8FUb/2O4IQwy4bbPoN2e2bDsBSDM+CAiSrdGv7p/7TiOyNs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Mu+M0vunjApfZvJotrq7ED7M+G762qB8sSKV+Ogk13bex6Q3DJiPR+9aOAKofamu4JOHYwFsk1QbE0H5wSs+KNGSUZr6gnlHT8Gzd/xOfPswrE7eKlhsLPfLf590PvDxaib4XebxI1gF3wkIuNKeEF+/WsyT+NfytTYtYWPq58Y= Received: by 10.35.12.10 with SMTP id p10mr146374pyi.1192681919108; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.coreip.homeip.net ( [74.142.80.143]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n80sm551948pyh.2007.10.17.21.31.56 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anvil.corenet.prv (anvil.corenet.prv [192.168.45.170]) by mailhub.coreip.homeip.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4989F526C18; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:31:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: by anvil.corenet.prv (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0437954EAC3; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 00:31:54 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday 17 October 2007, Jari Aalto wrote: > - Any editor will display the text written in "all spaces" > 100 % the same. Regradless of any viewer or editor used. > > But the same is not true with text that uses tabs (because you > really can't know what options the editor is preset / user set / > regarding the treatment of tabs). > > The score is 1 - 0 for "all spaces" in this contest. > How about this - I like tabs because when you removing it you need to hit Backspace just once and don't have to strain your eyes figuring out "Did I delete enough? Does it line up now?" -- Dmitry