[OT] Spaces/tabs (Was: simple display (from: GUI library for D))

[Walter Bright]

On 4/11/2011 1:31 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> In other words, *some* editors handle space-indentation intelligently (and
> do so by reinventing *tabs*), while *all* editors handle tab-indentation
> intelligently.

There is no way to handle tabs intelligently.

Take a source file that has tab characters in it. There is no algorithm in the 
world that will discern what the tab size is supposed to be. Heck, I've seen 
plenty of source files that assume a tab size of X in some sections and Y in 
others, and Z in still others.

The only way to win is to not use tabs.