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

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 03.06.2011 20:54, schrieb 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.
> 

If you use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment the tabsize
doesn't matter.