* Elastic Tabstops - the Solution to the 'Tabs vs. Spaces' Issue
posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Jul 2006 10:35 UTC, submitted by anonymous
IconWhen developping in a large team, you have to make convention about the use of tab in source code. This article suggests a better solution: rather than saying that a tab character (a 'hard tab') will move the cursor until the cursor's position is a multiple of N characters, we should say that a tab character is a delimiter between table cells. This has a nice side effect, since proportional fonts can now be used.
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