[MPlayer-dev-eng] [bikeshed] Coding style

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Jun 19 18:21:30 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 09:13:09AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> 
> People started using tabs when the compression they offered compared
> to spaces was significant, in disk space and terminal
> transmission/display times.  I don't know of any reason to prefer them
> over spaces now except "that's how my editor is set up today."

Most people who prefer tabs actually just do not want to have to press
the space bar many times and prefer pressing tab a few times less
instead.  Of course, a properly configured editor will take care of
this, but who uses such a thing...

Diego



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