Indents, spaces, and tabs

[Dave]

Re. that study, my bet is on Miara et al. (1983), abstract reproduced
here:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ProgramIndention

-David

On Jan 11, 8:44 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> [Continued from "Repeat command blocks"
> (http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/828df2e99...
> )]
>
> At 1/11/2011 11:58 AM Tuesday, Michiel Spape wrote:
>
> >Sorry to other people whom I haven't replied to yet. I saw loads of
> >code and my flu told my brain that I shouldn't bother.
>
> Sorry to hear you were ill, I missed you (was hoping you would have
> better advice for a few folks here).  Glad to have you back.
>
> >(as an aside to David: I'm going for tab indentation, you can see
> >windows has set that to 6 spaces, but I'm addicted to emacs style
> >tab indentation)
>
> I'll take tab indentation.  That does have the virtue that in many
> environments everybody can adjust the tab size in their viewing
> program as desired (and it also results in slightly smaller file
> sizes).  In fact, because E-Studio uses a tab size of 4, I just go
> ahead and use tabs there.  But outside of E-Studio I like to use
> spaces in place of tabs, that way I never have to fuss with setting
> tab stops when I move from viewer to viewer (as long as the viewer
> honors strings of spaces, which many HTML-oriented viewers do
> not).  It also means that I impose my will upon other readers.
>
> I could also accept a tab size of 6, but probably no larger.  When I
> started with Pascal I tried using 2 spaces, and found that too small
> for my tastes, then tried other sizes until I read of a study that
> claimed to find the "optimum" (whatever that is) tab size is 4, and I
> have found that works for me.  But 12 was really way too much.
>
> Cheers,
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder

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