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Article #121Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Chad Myers
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:11
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:11
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"Jon A. Cruz" <joncruz@geocities.com> wrote in message news:3D32F842.EC524346@geocities.com... > Chad Myers wrote: > > > If you can configure it correctly, which rarely seems to be the case. > > > > I have known many-an-Emacs user and I've rarely seen code spat from > > their editor that looks good in anything other than Emacs. > > > > The seemingly random combination of tabs and spaces makes it > > incomprehensible in any other editor. > > In practice, I've seen more problem from DevStudio users. The worst is > probably when it happily mixes different line-ends like CR, CR-LF, LF, > CR-CR-LF... > > But the wrong-tabs thing is another problem. One guy sets 2, one sets 8, > one sets 3... In Emacs, however, it's easy to fix: > > (setq indent-tabs-mode nil) > > There. No more tabs in source-code. No more problems The problem with Tabs is if you have Tabs to spaces. Tabs are preferable because the viewer can configure them to his liking, whereas with spaces, you're stuck. Tabs should be treated as tabs. If they aren't, then the editor is broken. -c
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