[Freeciv-Dev] Re: coding standard patch

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 03:59:26PM -0500, Anthony J. Stuckey wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:04:27AM +0000, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> > I'm against tabs. They can be nice if used properly, but I find that to be
> > mostly a theoretical perspective, since most of the time they just screw
> > things up. Like viewing the source code in a browser - too many tabs and
> > you need a 21" in 1600x1400 to see any of it, or (heavens forbid) scroll
> > to the right. There is also always someone who doesn't use the correct tab
> > size, and tabs also screw up indentation when reading diffs (the new
> > indentation looks wrong).

I do agree that having tabs makes reading diffs somewhat annoying. This is
the main reason that I dislike it (that and when I'm deleting a bunch of
text, some unforeseen tabs make me have to undo some of the delete, which
pisses me off).

-mike