Re: [bug #39943] Add an alternative parsing mode that regards space and tab as identical tokens

[David Boyce]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #39943 (project make):

IMO _any_ editor which automatically replaces TABs with spaces should never be
considered to be a useful programming tool.  But YMMV of course.

 

You know what they say about standards and how great it is that there's so many? The Python coding standard calls for no use of tabs and thus many people who do Python coding have their editors configured to turn tabs into spaces. I do, for example. Of course it's usually possible to configure the editor to use different profiles with different languages but that gets harder since makefiles have no standard extension. Anyway, the fault doesn't necessarily lie with the editor per se[*].

[*] To be precise, the fault lies with Stu Feldman and his unwillingness to break an installed base of "around a dozen" users :-)(http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch15s04.html).

-David Boyce