[OT] Auto code reformating / one coding style enforcment.

[Unknown W. Brackets]

In my code, I use hard tabs for everything and set my tab-width to 4 spaces.

I've never had trouble with printing code (something I do less often 
than have birthdays, mind you) nor any text editor displaying my code 
weirdly.

Some people hate hard tabs, because they just have to line things up 
after a non-tab character with tabs.  I think this is a Bad Thing (TM), 
but if you have to do it, I understand using spaces.

But I've never seen a case where a program would misbehave if the tab 
width was not set to 8.... I just can't wrap my head around the benefit 
of using both tabs *and* spaces.

-[Unknown]


> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
>> Uh-huh, sure.
>>
>> You're usually right, but I don't like having to hit backspace four 
>> times or 1 time alternatively based on my indentation level.  That's 
>> just bizarre.  I've never seen someone mix tabs like that before...
>>
>> Why do you prefer it, if I may ask?
>>
>> -[Unknown]
>>
>>
>>> It works just fine when you set tabs to be 8 characters, as god 
>>> intended them to be.
> 
> 
> Because it isn't screwed up when you type it to the screen or the printer.