On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> Why there's tabstop=8, but file is indented with 2 spaces?
> How should <tab> key works in these files?
>
> If you want to mark that \t in files are bad, let at least set
> softtabstop=2 to make using <tab> sane.
What is this "tabstop=" and "softabstop=" stuff? :-)
(I.e., our source code style should not make *any* assumptions about the behavior and capabilities of the editor that any particular developer uses, as we should not impose any requirements (other than "handles ASCII") on editors.)