Tabs are *EVIL*, end of discussion. (Re: Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code)

[Andy Sy]

Please... just stop this senseless defense of
a Rube-Goldberg feature.

There will NEVER be a universal agreement on
whether tabs should be 2, 3, 4 or 8 spaces in
width, and this causes endless tweaking of editor
settings (a *humongous* waste of time) to handle
source code made by other programmers with different
settings.

And I, for the life of me, have never remembered
getting any source code to display properly by
fiddling with my text editor's (the very popular
SciTE) tab settings.

4, 8, 3, 2, it doesn't matter.  *Nothing* has ever
made someone's tab-infested source code display
completely cleanly.  Nearly a third of my coding
time seems to have been spent (read:wasted) trying
to reformat some unenlightened tab user's source code
to read comprehensibly.



1. Tabs as 8 spaces just take up too much horizontal area

2. But you can't use any other value because if you do,
   you will screw up display using cat/less/more !!

DOES ANYONE NEED ANY REASON MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE ABOVE TO
JUST *NOT* USE TABS??!???!??!!!??

Don't be evil - always configure your editor to
convert tabs to true spaces.



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