The D Style and tab sizes

[Steve Horne]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 00:47:21 +0100, Stewart Gordon
<smjg_1998 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>"# Hardware tabs are at 8 column increments.
># Each indentation level will be four columns."
>
>Firstly, what is a "hardware tab"?  Secondly, these two quotations seem 
>contradictory.

"Soft tab" usually means indent levels done in spaces. Any decent text
editors will insert spaces when you press the tab key these days.
"Hard tab" means the ASCII tab character, which is evil.

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