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Re: Tabs in Workbench [message #59046]

Tue, 04 March 2008 07:09

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Paul van Delst writes:

> Good lord, why are you using tabs?

Well, let me put it this way. I was writing FORTRAN
code when you were still in diapers.

> Doesn't the workbench editor do auto indent?

Oh, it *loves* to auto indent!!

> If I get source code with tabs in it, I either send it back or use "tr" to scrub the tabs
> out. In the latter case, tab-cleaning generally makes the code look horrendously
> higgeldy-piggeled.

My source code doesn't have tabs in it. They have
all been replaced by some arbitrary number of spaces.
"Higgeldy-piggeledly" describes it. :-(

Cheers,

David
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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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