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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Standard Indentation etc.
Message-ID: <888@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 05:43:13 GMT
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In article <2477@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <879@quintus.UUCP>, ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>> 8 columns is _way_ too big for an indentation increment.

>Who said 8 columns? I said a tabstop. That can be anything you want.

No it can't, not and expect other people to make sense of your files.
I once had the extremely unpleasant experience of trying to read a
large software system which had been written on VMS with an editor 
that took tab-stop = 4.  The UNIX terminal driver didn't believe this.
Neither did 'more'.  And 'expand' wasn't quite the answer, either, as
some of the tabs were in strings...  Neither can I convert tabs to 4
if your file has been through an editor or mailer on its way to me which
converts tabs to spaces (memories of DEC-10 <-> IBM/370, ugh).

Nope, if I have to _read_ your files, I'm going to use 'indent'.