Re: [PATCH RFC3 09/13] send-email: Remove horrible mix of tabs and spaces

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 14, 2009, 06:19 UTC
Message-ID: <7vws9n92q3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <49E41F99.6010409@op5.se>

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Using tabs to align stuff to indentation level and spaces to align
> line continuation is the only possible way to let users choose
> whichever indentation depth they want while preserving the continuation
> alignment.

Sure, it will look aligned with whatever width of HT ">":

	>>if (this is a looong
        >>....expression that is alighed) {
        >>>statement1;
        >>>statement2;
        >>}

but it is *only true* if your SP "." and everything else is of the same width.

People seem to repeat that without realizing what they are saying, but I find the assumption the argument is based on quite bogus. Why do people think it is only sane to assume flexible HT width but still monospaced font whose SP, l and w are all of the same width?

You either forget about the alignment (there is no such thing---suck it up), or use time honored HT=8 and monospace convention.

And this project uses the latter.