Deprecate tabs for indenting (was Re: Indenting with tabs vs spaces)

Carel Fellinger cfelling at iae.nl
Thu Dec 6 20:01:34 EST 2001


Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> wrote:
> Carel Fellinger <cfelling at iae.nl> writes:

>> alas, cut&past on an X display will not see those tabs, but only the
>> spaces used to represent them at the moment:(

> That's got nothing to do with X and everything with how your editor or
> your terminal emulator as the case may be handles it. I can copy&paste
> between e.g. different Emacs sessions just fine including tab
> characters.

You're right, it was flaky memory, shalow testing and the terminal emulator.
Sorry for trying to end the tab-war with false arguments.
-- 
groetjes, carel



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