From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:02:32 GMT
Subject: Re: builtin conversion between tabs and spaces
Message-ID: <57518fd10810151402p4ea3283anf4b3d175c4e82425@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d4bc1a2a0810151352s6c963e32jc4f492a7c84841dc@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Stefan Karpinski
<stefan.karpinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> if you consistently use spaces, then tabs_to_spaces will
> always give you back your original version; if you consistently use
> tabs, then spaces_to_tabs will give you back your original version. If
> you use some crazy mix of the two, you cannot reconstruct your
> original without remembering where there were tabs versus spaces,

Just IMO, a crazy mix of tabs and spaces is the only _sane_ thing to
do.  Using tabs for the initial indentation, plus spaces for alignment
of function arguments / comments / whatever, is the only way of
getting a layout that will both look right regardless of the tab size,
and allow a viewer to alter the indentation size.