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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Latest indent request
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Date: 7 Dec 88 01:35:09 GMT
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In article <9149@ihlpb.ATT.COM> gregg@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@sun.com)