4 Mar
2021
4 Mar
'21
10:42 p.m.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 4, 2021, at 3:29 PM, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
There’s a thought, highlight the pesky things. I usually hunt for them after they
become an issue, but turning on a highlight is way better than my editor’s “show
invisibles” function that puts a funky dash where tabs are... not invisible, just
obfuscated.
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 15:27:27 -0600,
Will Senn wrote:
FWIW, I do this in my own code too. Once you know about it, it's not
an issue. It helps to have an editor that highlights tab characters.
Greg
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On 3/4/21 3:24 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
FWIW, FreeBSD's style(9) man page
(https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0&sektion=9…)
includes:
Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four
spaces.
I've always used 8 character tabs (though in my own code I don't stick
to style(9)). As others have commented, it's the Unix standard, and
the confusion between tabs and spaces is bad enough without changing
the relationship.
Wow, mixed tabs and spaces? On purpose? That's nuts :).