Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!snafu!lm From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Latest indent request Message-ID: <80360@sun.uucp> Date: 7 Dec 88 01:35:09 GMT References: <9125@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <9149@ihlpb.ATT.COM> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 13 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)