Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Jul 2006 10:35 UTC, submitted by anonymous
When 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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I prefer to use spaces only, but where's the problem if you use only tabs for indenting and set the tabsize according to personal taste? Works with proportional fonts as well.
Trouble only arrives when you mix spaces and tabs and I don't see how those "elastic tabs" help with that.