On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Bill Meier wrote:
> On 9/28/2011 4:57 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
>>
>> I'll argue that *tab*stops should be 8 until someone shows me how to
>> tell all the various terminal programs I end up using that the file I'm
>> currently looking at (in 'less' or 'grep' or plain old 'cat') that the
>> file in question is using an alternative tabstop. (Or until I'm blue in
>> the face or dead or whatever ;-).)
>>
>
> +5 !
+10^(10^100)
The UNIX tty driver, the default tab settings you get from e.g. tset, and the default tab settings in most if not all UN*X terminal emulators do 8-space tabs. (Xcode didn't get the memo, which is why
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/autofs/autofs-207/autofs.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
has a bunch of entries that say "indentWidth = 8".)