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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:32:56 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:53:55AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > Well, we just established that all-space is perfect, look-wise.
> 
> But we also established that an all-space model is not stable, because any 
> unix developers will start adding tabs instead of spaces.

In what way does an all-space model cause people to accidentally add
tabs, but an all-tab model does not cause people to accidentally add
spaces?

-Peff