Comments for Why shouldn't I use TAB characters in my source files?

Comment from John T. Vonachen on 2008-03-14

2008-03-14T18:08:30Z

Yea tabs. But tabs are really just the beginning. What is needed is, for instance, an IDE that stores the code in some normalized form. It could even store it minified or compressed and encrypted. When you open it, it formats the code with what I call a "Parsing Beautifier". In other words a beautifier that does not just use patterns but has the same understanding of the code as a compiler would. Each person who looks at the code can fine tune the PB themselves and see the code in whatever way makes the most sense to them. Agree, dissagree, suggestions?

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Comment from Gary on 2006-07-06

2006-07-06T14:03:49Z

Bah! You are the devil! The entire point of using tab is that people can chose how to display it - say a team member chooses to use four spaces, when I prefer just two - I'm stuffed and his code looks alien.

If we were to use the tab key, he can set it at four characters, I set it at two and we are both happy as hamsters!

Go tab!

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Comment from karina on 2006-04-25

2006-04-25T22:11:42Z

we should't use TAB characters because most pepole i know don't know how it works even i don't know what it means so please rember these comment and reply soon from karina robinson

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2006-03-30

2006-03-30T17:21:53Z

D'oh. Thank you. I've corrected the article. Had LF on the brain, or something.

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Comment from Ken on 2006-03-30

2006-03-30T15:48:45Z

"The tab ASCII character, hexadecimal value 0x0a, decimal value 10, probably dates back to the days of the teletype."

I assume you mean 0x09 (decimal 9) in the above.

(Note that my parents had an IBM Selectric typewriter that allowed user-settable tab stops. The default, of course, was every 8 columns.)

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