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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:01:06PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > 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...
> 
> Even using an editor which does that, I find tabs to be convenient, in
> that they allow me to jump back one level of indentation in existing
> code with one keypress rather than with multiple (one per space).

hitting tab moves to the next indent level
hitting backspace moves to the previous one
not sure if you want more?

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