indentation

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <010c80c2$0$20670$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:

> Here's Jamie Zawinski:
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
> 
> "On defaultly-configured Unix systems, and on ancient dumb terminals and
> teletypes, the tradition has been for the TAB character to mean ``move to
> the right until the current column is a multiple of 8.''

Actually, I think that should be "multiple of 8 plus 1". If you're in column
1, pressing tab will move the equivalent of 8 spaces, which takes you
column 9, not 8.