Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <4a31939d.4040...@symantec.com>, Bob McGowan wrote:Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:In <20090610160715.ga22...@tomgeorge.info>, Thomas H. George wrote:
-- deleted discussion of tabbing --
Being disciplined with tabbing (indentation), spacing (alignment), and line-breaking/word-wrapping can allow your code/text to be beautiful independent of the viewers tab stop settings or terminal width.
This is fine, for a particular workgroup who have a defined discipline.But I've had consistent problems with downloaded code, where different disciplines have been used. I end up with some lines indented less/more than others, in haphazard patterns, that make it impossible to determine which line belongs where, visually. And, there's no notation/comment in the file telling me what tabstop setting was used, so I have to experiment with various values until the right one is found. Or, at least, the one I "think" is right.
I'm not familiar with the 'list' option, perhaps that would solve the above issue? I would love to be able to have consistent results, regardless of the file source.
The 'expandtab' only affects _my_ editing input, not existing tabs, so there are no "spurious" changes made that would result in a "white space fix", as far as I can see.
-- Bob McGowan
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