From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:37 +0200 Message-ID: <47150839.4060207@op5.se> References: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> <471476B7.5050105@users.sourceforge.net> <8c5c35580710160204s5a4f9fb3j68c0a86c4d080cb7@mail.gmail.com> <47148F72.1090602@users.sourceforge.net> <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> <4714F3A2.3080103@op5.se> <20071016183401.GR16774@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jeffrey C. Ollie" , Adam Piatyszek , Lars Hjemli , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jan-Benedict Glaw X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 20:52:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhrWH-0001Qm-Oc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761821AbXJPSvo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:51:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761088AbXJPSvo (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:51:44 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:37612 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759538AbXJPSvn (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:51:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 396B217306FD; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=0.000, BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZKvITLdKKQ8o; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [172.27.77.30]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50F817306C1; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:51:38 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <20071016183401.GR16774@lug-owl.de> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 19:23:46 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:16 +0200, Adam Piatyszek wrote: >>>> And if one change the tab size, it will result in a messy alignment in >>>> line 5. >>> Which is why one should never should change the tab size from anything >>> but 8. >> I have mine set to 4. With an 11.2" screen and 1024x768 resolution, it's > > You fir 768 lines of text and 1024 chars per line to such a small > display and still argue about too large tabs? > If by "char" you mean "pixel", then yes. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231