EvanED wrote:If someone using an 8-character stop has to deal with lines longer than 80 characters, then too bad; he can just set it to 4-character stops, and you're almost no worse off than if you had used spaces in the first place. (In fact, if this person is editing the code, he'd probably need to change settings anyway if you used spaces, lest he start inserting 8 of them where there should only be 4.) At least with tabs you've given him a choice of (1) not worrying about the 80-col limit, (2) saying that his preference for 8-space tabs overrides his preferences for 80-col limits and leaving the settings the same, and (3) saying his preference for 80-col limits overrides his preferences for 8-space tabs and changing to shorter tabs.
There's something wrong in there, but I can't really put my finger on it.
Maybe I want my code to look good for my sake, not theirs..?
