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Article #81Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Chad Myers
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:16
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:16
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"Ryan Breidenbach" <ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:55e900c9.0207231412.2ca51206@posting.google.com... > > Believe it or not, there are some people who use proportional-width fonts > > for development, and spacing screws that all up. Hardly any of the indents > > match up. > > > > With tabs, they do. > > I don't see how things in a proportional-width font would be any > different with tabs or spaces. Don't tabs just insert a configured > number of spaces? No, tabs are tabs. Tabs expand or contract to fit to the configured tab stops. Ever used a word processor? > As Dale has already mentioned, spaces are interpretted consistently > everywhere. The same cannot be said for tabs. With that being true > (and it IS), I can't see why you would want to use tabs. Spaces are NOT interpretted consistently everywhere, did you not just read my last post on this? -c
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