[TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Sat Mar 6 08:23:11 AEST 2021


On Mar 5, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Scot Jenkins via TUHS <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> The beauty of hard tabs is that the person viewing the code can
> choose how to display them in their editor.  If everyone indents
> with the Tab character, the problem goes away.

Also works well with variable width fonts. For some strange reason
this is not a popular choice!




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