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[Bas van Gils <bas.vangils AT cs.kun.nl>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:52:55AM -0400, Dufflebunk wrote:
>       I'm mostly to blame for those tabs. When I rewrite a lib I usually use
> tabs rather than spaces because hitting the space bar 12 times or the
> backspace 12 times isn't my idea of fun for indentation. 
> [snip]

Hi,

Having a nice coding-style is IMHO nice. In languages like Python it is
essential, since code-blocks are recognized by their indentation instead of
tokens like "begin/end" or "{ }". Anyway, when I started using Python a while
ago, I did some searching on the Web and found 

    http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html

particularly useful. not only for Python-code, but for coding in general. As
it turns out: the prefered way of doing things in Python is to use 4-space
indents.

Like Dufflebunk said: hitting the space-bar n times (n = big number) isn't
fun. I learned that most editors can be configured to use "softtab"¸ which
basicallly expands a tab into spaces. In vim you'd have to use:

    set expandtab
    set shiftwidth=4
    set softtabstop=4
    set tabstop=4

I'm not sure how to configure Emacs to do this, since I stopped using this a
long time a go. 

Hope this suggestions helps ;-)

    Yours

        Bas



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