[OT] Tabs / Re: [PD-dev] Looks like there's a song position pointer bug

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
Larry Troxler hat gesagt: // Larry Troxler wrote:

> Thanks, actually that tip will help a lot (but what happens with CVS - does it 
> know to consider tabs equivalent to spaces, and if so, how does it know what 
> the tab spacing is?

How should CVS know? I treats tabs for what they are: one "\t".

> One thing I learned here (I think) is that normally hard tabs are eight spaces 
> on Unix. At least that seems to be the first spacing to try.

I don't know what a hard tab is. 

As a tab is just one character and not 8 or 2 or 4, there is no "rule"
on Unix that it is eight spaces normally. The eight character thing is
just the width, some editors like to show a tab. 

Personally I set the tabwidth in Vim to 4 because 8 is much to wide
for my tastes. But someone else wouldn't know this, it makes no
difference when using real tabs like "\t".

Using expaned tabs everyone would see 4 spaces for indenting in my
code and would have to live with it. That's one of the reasons I
prefer \t-tabs in my code, the other is faster navigation (faster
moving over less characters). 

In Pd or any C language this is really no problem at all, but I do
program a lot in Python, and here a community project has to agree on
one single indentation/tab style.

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__