Re: [Super-tux-devel] indentations

[Ingo R. <gr...@gm...>]

Ricardo Cruz <ri...@ae...> writes:

> Anyway, I keep thinking why are ppl so scared of the Tabs! Really,
> tabs are the best thing since sliced bread.

The problem with tabs is that many 'clever' text-editors are just a
bit too clever handling them, ie. Emacs converts tabs and spaces from
one to another pretty much randomly (have a tab and go backspace ->
you get 7 spaces instead of removing the tab), resulting in a huge
mess if viewed in another editor or with anotehr tab-width. One can
fix Emacs to not do that, but its really far from streight forward.
After all the easiest way to 'fix' this is to completly avoid tabs and
use spaces always, this of course removes the freedom to use another
tab width, but ensures that the sources looks everywhere the same
(which is good or bad, depending on if you like the source look).

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