Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <47150839.4060207@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071016183401.GR16774@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

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> On Tue, 2007-10-16 19:23:46 +0200, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
>> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:16 +0200, Adam Piatyszek wrote:
>>>> And if one change the tab size, it will result in a messy alignment in
>>>> line 5.
>>> Which is why one should never should change the tab size from anything
>>> but 8.
>> I have mine set to 4. With an 11.2" screen and 1024x768 resolution, it's
> 
> You fir 768 lines of text and 1024 chars per line to such a small
> display and still argue about too large tabs?
>

If by "char" you mean "pixel", then yes.

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