Courageous jkraska at san.rr.com
Mon Dec 3 20:45:37 EST 2001

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>> Always curious about this in an "all tab" world - how do you align
>> continuation lines that aren't on a tab stop?
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>And even if you *do* so, then how are they going to stay aligned when the
>next person to look at it uses a different tab size?

A: you can't, and they won't.

We have more experience than they do and just don't understand us.
I might have made the "leave my tabs the fuck alone" argument 4 or
5 years ago. Not any longer.

Perhaps they simply haven't worked on a shared CVS tree.

C//

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