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19:23:37
makomo
beach: do you intentionally use tabs in your source code? i finally got around to fixing a few typos i found within sicl and was wondering whether i should "fix" the tabs as well
19:24:07
makomo
"fix" in the sense that they're being used for alignment. if you don't set your editor to display them as 8 spaces, everything looks off and weird
19:27:04
makomo
in my mind that's a bad thing precisely because of the variable display length of tabs. in a perfect world, we would use tabs for indentation and spaces for (further) alignment, but i doubt people will ever be careful about that
21:11:53
jackdaniel
tabs have a fixed size due to other limitation imposed by the way things were limited in old days
21:12:12
jackdaniel
this is a cool writeup how things /may/ be: http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
22:32:17
jcowan
though my ASR-33 did not understand them, which I think was a (mechanical) configuration problem.