Latest indent request

Larry McVoy lm at snafu.Sun.COM
Wed Dec 7 11:35:09 AEST 1988


In article <9149 at ihlpb.ATT.COM> gregg at ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) writes:
>One of the most frustrating things for me is that so many people insist
>on using a mixture of spaces and tabs for indentation.  It seems obvious
>that editors like vi(1) have commands like ":set tabs=4 sw=4" for some
>reason!  

[unix-wizards in not approrpiate for this, followup to unix questions]

sw=4 is cool.  ts=4 is not.  What happens when I do "lpr $.c" after 
some boy genius has missused the ts=4 feature?  Yeah, I know about expand,
but that is a hack and screws up other code.

Larry McVoy      (lm%snafu at sun.com)



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