[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Coding Style Guidelines

[Erik Sigra <sigra@xxxxxxx>]

Monday 14 January 2002 20.02 skrev Tony Stuckey:
>       I am firmly of the opinion that tabs are the only good way to do
> indentation.  Setting the tab stops at 8 was a dumb decision made decades
> ago (5 or 6 would have been the proper values for historical accuracy).  I
> personally have vi set up to use ts=4.

I agree. Nothing seems more logical than using the tab char to represent a 
logical level of indentation. That is the only way to make it show up 
correctly with all tabsizes. The only reason I know against it is that Emacs 
can't handle it.