Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Petr Baudis <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:09:53 +0200

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:40:26PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> Tabs should be used for indent and not general alignment.
> 
> Consider:
> <tab>if (some long condition that
> <tab>....&& spans two lines) {
> <tab><tab>my_private_printf("bla bla bla"
> <tab><tab>.................."more bla bla\n");
> <tab><tab>}
> 
> This will look good and align "more bla bla\n" as
> intended no matter your tab setting.
> But replacing the 8 spaces with a tab will
> cause it to look bad.

I'd so much love to have this and sometimes do this even manually, but
does anyone have an idea how to make vim do this for me? I never got
around to investigate this in depth or possibly make a patch...

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
                -- James Thurber