DOS, UNIX and tabs

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-01-02, Peter Decker <pydecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/1/07, Tom Plunket <tomas at fancy.org> 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! I've been using
> proportional fonts ever since, and have found only one
> drawback: code that is indented with spaces looks butt-ugly.
> I'm glad I switched to tabs for my code.

I first came accross it in Stroustrup's _The C++ Programming
Language_. I liked the look and the idea immediately, but my
editor of choice (by historical accident) Vim, doesn't yet
support it.

-- 
Neil Cerutti
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