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Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)

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From: Ryan Breidenbach
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 04:04

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> : Yes, but almost all editors will allow you to place spaces instead of
> : tabs, still saving keystokes.
> 
> It's not the same when outdenting.

Agreed. Still, most decent IDEs/text editors will handle this for you,
as well (usually by hitting Shift+Tab). Even so, this doesn't seem to
outweigh how much tabs can jack up how code looks.

As I mentioned before, I see people using them to line up things other
than standard indentions (e.g. methods, inner classes, etc).

For example, many people like to line up variable declarations like
so:

  private int              id;
  private PreparedStatment stmt;
  private String           name;

As you can see in my post, they remain lined up, because they are
aligned with spaces. Suppose I used tabs instead, but I set my tabs to
equal two spaces (hey, it's my choice). Suppose you have your tabs set
to four spaces. Here is what that code would look like with tabs:

  private int                               id;
  private PreparedStatement stmt;
  private String                    name;

Huh? That doesn't look so good. God help you if you have your tabs set
to eight :-) This is why I can't stand tabs.

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