[Gllug] vi indenting

Jonathan Dye jonathan.dye at automationpartnership.com
Wed Dec 19 10:14:03 UTC 2001


At 11:02 19/12/01 +0000, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 09:48, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>> texts, then sure, indent with spaces, but I've yet to see a single
>> valid argument (including jwz's) for indenting code with anything
>> but tabs. 
>
>I agree 100%. Anyone using anything to indent other than tabs should be
>shot. Space signifies separation, tabs signify layout. You can move
>tabs. Tabs are fantastic.
>
>People who use two spaces _and_ don't cuddle braces are the worst kind
>and produce the most unreadable, messy code. That's not opinion, that's
>fact*, you write better code when you use tabs (i.e., ASCII#9, not the
>tab button to issues sequences of spaces).

Cuddle braces?

JD


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