> Oh, and I do care a single * about leading tabs or spaces even if you mix them. I don't see them. My editor does the right thing

If someone is using an indentation different to 4 you'll get ugly results. (That's actually a running gag in code sections posted here, because browsers still default to tab=8)

The only right thing your editor can do is reindenting all the code, which will result in a full diff when checking into version control.

And even with indent 4 calling untabify (or whatever it's called in vim) will cause unwanted diffs.

My strategy is to commit the untabified version first. But doing this everytime a colleague touched the file might get annoying.

So this question is of relevance when working in a team, IMHO. (And yes certainly YMMV)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re^2: How has your coding style changed over the years? by LanX
in thread How has your coding style changed over the years? by stevieb

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