Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 3/31/10 03:53, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Steven Schveighoffer"<schveiguy at yahoo.com>  wrote in message
> news:op.vaefb7p3eav7ka at localhost.localdomain...
>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:32 -0400, Walter Bright
>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, type a file to a console window. Tabs come out as 8 characters, on
>>> Windows, Linux, and OSX.
>>
>> So do 8 spaces.  This is the surest way to make code easily
>> viewable/editable anywhere.  Just set the "expand tabs" option on your
>> favorite editor.
>>
>> My recommendation is to say indentations are 4 spaces and tabs should not
>> be used for indentation.
>>
>
> I've always found using spaces for indentation to make editing a real PITA.
> (Why woudn't I rather be able to move in/out one level of indentation with
> one arrow-key press instead of 4 (or so) ?)
>
> But really, I don't see why the whole issue hasn't already been made 100%
> personal style by a VCS that handles it the same way SVN handles EOLs. If
> one person has problems involving another person using a different
> indentation system, then at least one of them is doing something very wrong.
> Seriously, how is it that this is 2010, we have things like syntax
> highlighting as standard featutres in every editor that anyone ever actually
> uses...and yet the whole world of programmers still can't abstract away
> something as simple as f*cking tab sizes? Bah!

Eclipse with descent can reformat the files to your own personal 
preferences.