5 Mar
2021
5 Mar
'21
1:23 a.m.
On 04/03/2021 13:31, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote (in part):
Traditionalists (or at least, I, speaking for myself)
use tabs in
their C, C++, and shell code and *must* use tabs in their Makefiles.
Yes in
Makefiles, otherwise I prefer 4 spaces per stop.
The Python world is different; there the use of spaces
and a tab stop
of 4 characters is common.
I recall two colleagues working on the same Python-based
project. One
used a 3-column tab; the other used 8-column spaces. Few fireworks as
the other simply filtered.
I don't remember the details of entab and detab
programs on Unix
(other than the expand command)
This begs a question from me. My Solaris boxes
have expand/unexpand but
no entab/detab. What is the history there?
N.