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[Ville Vainio]

Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> writes:

> Vim does this (:set softtabstop=4 expandtab); I believe Emacs can also
> do it.

Yes, it's the default behaviour for python-mode.el.

It's still funny to observe how some people are so fanatical about
using tabs. Even talking about this issue is a good way to get
flamed. Python is also very PC, and tries to indulge all the tabnicks
to the greatest extent possible. Even if tabs are, objectively
speaking, an inferior and less reliable system, and people probably
use them because they must insist on using their inferior text editors
(notepad?) for coding until the end of time...

Python should interpret tabs so that tab stops would be 153 spaces
apart, that way mixing tabs and spaces would never accidentally work.

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Ville Vainio   http://www.students.tut.fi/~vainio24