On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:38:32PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Avery Pennarun wrote: > > The "de-facto standard Internet tab size" has always been 8 characters. > > Always? The 1982 standard for ARPANETš email (RFC 822) explicitly > states in Section 3.4.2 that there is no nework-wide standard tab size > and so the use of HTAB is discouraged.
That's what makes it a "de-facto" standard. Unfortunately, no standards, even de-facto ones, are universally implemented because there are people who (often rightly) believe that they're junk. Yay for ^H versus DEL :) Have fun, Avery
