Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 00:35:12 +0100 From: Ronan Waide To: David Golden Cc: ilug@linux.ie Subject: Re: [ILUG] Re: vi as a html editor X-Mailer: VM 7.03 under Emacs 20.7.1 Organization: poor at best. On March 31, david.golden@unison.ie said: > (Aside: tabstop (ts) should normally be kept at 8, change softtabstop (sts) > to change apparent tab stop behaviour - or you might want to set expandtab to > lose literal tab characters completely, for a slight impact on filesize. > tabstop is mainly for working around files edited by (typically windoze) > software that doesn't take a literal ASCII tab character to mean exactly "go > to next 8 column boundary", as is the norm on Unix. You can have terrible > problems using CVS and diff if people are using different tab conventions in > their editors, and the 8-character boundary is the unix standard. Note that > the width of literal tab characters and indentation by a particular amount > are completely separate issues in all but the most primitive (i.e. windoze > :-( ) editors/IDEs...) Here's a pretty good read on the whole tabs thing: http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html Waider. -- waider@waider.ie / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. "[company]'s basic pricing strategy is to hang the user up by his heels, see how much money falls out, take it all and then ask for another $50,000 for "support"." - Phil Greenspun