On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes@gmail.com> wrote:
Am 03.06.2011 20:54, schrieb Walter Bright:
> On 4/11/2011 1:31 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> In other words, *some* editors handle space-indentation intelligently
>> (and
>> do so by reinventing *tabs*), while *all* editors handle tab-indentation
>> intelligently.
>
> There is no way to handle tabs intelligently.
>
> Take a source file that has tab characters in it. There is no algorithm
> in the world that will discern what the tab size is supposed to be.
> Heck, I've seen plenty of source files that assume a tab size of X in
> some sections and Y in others, and Z in still others.
>
> The only way to win is to not use tabs.
>

If you use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment the tabsize
doesn't matter.

This is my preferred approach, too.

Adam