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

Erik de Castro Lopo nospam at mega-nerd.com
Mon Dec 3 14:34:25 EST 2001


Courageous wrote:
> 
> >Perhaps you might want to put some kind of processing step into your
> >revision control procedures or tools. I think I raised this issue
> >before on comp.lang.python but some people think it's more interesting
> >to get religious about tabs vs. spaces instead.
> 
> I've considered that on many occasions; one such step might be to
> simply REJECT a commit of a .py file with tabs in it.

YOu people are ***NUTS***.

How hard is it to find an editor that treats tabs correctly and allows
the tab width to be set to something other than 8?

Get a grip people.


Erik
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