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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> on 2006/08/15 00:42:55 UTC

Tabs in source code (was: features of Apache-Subversion server.)

On Wednesday, August 09, 2006 6:53 PM +0200 Tobias Herp 
<to...@gmx.de> wrote:

> No; it means, you can do everything using the HTTP protocol (with http://
> urls instead of svn://), plus you can view the latest versions of any
> file in a web browser (using the same http:// urls).

This is also a good reason to avoid tabs in source code, at least those 
intended to represent variable indentation. Web browsers have no standard 
for how to represent a tab, and I suspect most use the old 8-column 
teletype standard. If you use tabs in your source code to represent some 
other indentation (say, 2, 3, or 4 columns) and you do sub-statement 
alignment (like lining up parameters under the opening paren) then it's 
going to look wrong in a web browser.

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