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Re: Formatting, tabs vs spaces.
Paolo Carlini escreveu:
... so you are really following me in my nitpicking passion. Good, good ;)
Seriously, I think the general answer is easy: never use by-hand spaces. When you use a normally configured emacs, for example, you *never* press the spacebar for formatting purposes, only to separate words. In fact, since emacs is The reference GNU programmers tool, I would suggest just using it as such and configure any other tool to mimic its behavior.
Or, if you're like me and don't want a full-blown lisp interpreter
hanging around loaded in memory ( :) ), just stick with vi and make sure
the option 'expandtab' is set. Put 'set expandtab' in your vimrc.
Regards,
Rodolfo Lima