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Posted to dev@ant.apache.org by Ingmar Stein <st...@xtramind.com> on 2001/09/04 10:43:28 UTC

Re: [PATCH] first pass at an improvement on JUnit properties display

> Slightly offtopic, but what is the advantage of spaces over tabs?
> With tabs, you can specifiy the amout of indentation yourself (some prefer
> 8 characters, some only 1) thus you don't have to adapt to the original
> author's
> indentation style.
> Also, tabs make the files smaller as they're only a single character
instead
> of
> 1-8. Okay, this is a minor point, but I think tabs are much more useful
than
> spaces
> for indentation.

So if we agree on that... could we make DOMElementWriter use tabs instead
of two spaces? Those XML files generated by DOMElementWriter are not
used with CVS so we can save space there.

Cheers,

Ingmar Stein