FreeTDS Development Group

["Dale P. Smith" <smithd AT bellhow.com>]

Craig Spannring wrote:
> 
> I think we should avoid hard tabs in the source code.  I'm not really
> concerned about the actual locations of the tab stops.  What does
> concern me is the locations of the tab stops.  Some people use 3, some
> use 4, etc.  Source code that was formatted with tab stops of 4 looks
> bad with tab stops of 3.
> 
> In my editor the tab stops are set at 4, but my printer seems to think
> that a tab stop should be 8.  In other words my printed output doesn't
> look anything at all like the screen.

Yow!  I thought I left all that tab ugliness behind with msdos editors.

Here we go.  Tabs and indenting are separate.  A tab is *always* worth
8 spaces.  If you are between "tab stops", you use spaces to get to the
proper column.

It really not that way in the non-emacs world?  Yeesh!

Thankfully using Emacs and not Having To Deal With IT Anymore,
   Dale