DOS, UNIX and tabs

[Tom Plunket]

Peter Decker wrote:

> > Maybe I'm also weird, but I use a variable-pitch font when programming
> > in Python.  So a "tab equals some number of spaces" really isn't useful
> > to me.  My setup is, "tab equals this much space".
> 
> A year ago I would have thought you were weird, but after reading a
> post by Ed Leafe, one of the creators of Dabo about using proportional
> fonts for readability, I thought I'd try it out, thinking that it was
> pretty wacky. Turns out that after a very brief adjustment period, I
> liked it!

Yep, I had a similar experience although a bit more forced.  The editor
that I was using was configured out-of-the-box with variable-pitch, and
I didn't want to bother figuring out how to change it for the quickie
stuff I was writing, then eventually I found that it no longer bothered
me...


-tom!

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