Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 00:32 UTC
Message-ID: <20071018003256.GA5062@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710170849590.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

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

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