Re: [cowiki-dev] Tabs vs spaces -- what's the downside?

On 4/30/05, Hakan Kuecuekyilmaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hope I could help you.

yes.  =)


So the issue is that different programs will display tabs with
different amounts of whitespace.  But aren't commonly used tools
capable of customizing that?

It seems strange that the same tools which people can customize to
insert 'x' spaces when pressing tab cannot display 'x' whitespace when
displaying a tab.


I am leaning towards favouring tabs because of the ease of code
folding based on tabs.  I know that smarter folding exists though,
which could look at the code more appropriately.. (based on the code,
based on the spaces, etc..).