From help-request at octave dot org Sun Feb 20 10:59:05 2005
Subject: RE: Using Vim, using tabs, using spaces
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: <steveandaynz at optusnet dot com dot au>
Cc: <help at octave dot org>
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:05:07 -0500

On 20-Feb-2005, Steve & Aynz <steveandaynz at optusnet dot com dot au> wrote:

| > Some editors have an option of setting tab width to something 
| > other than 8 spaces. Doing so will get you in trouble. 
| 
| I'm not sure why this would get you into trouble unless you were
| exporting your code to another text editor, but I am not sure why you
| would do this other than to send examples of failed tabs via email?  I
| use nonstandard tab indents and find them very useful.

It causes confusion because when you look at your code with the nice
N-space (N != 8) tab stops it looks great.  But when you send it to me
and I don't know about the N-space tab stops because I don't use your
editor, I get 8-space tabs and you code looks like a mess.

jwe



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