Re: [HACKERS] Source code format vote

Thus spake Vince Vielhaber
> Ok, this is probably a really dumb question and probably even been answered
> before but I missed it.  Why not make a tab be a tab and however it appears
> in the end programmer's editor can be up to the programmer?  Or is pgindent
> changing tabs to spaces?

Not a dumb question at all.  However, think about comments.  Look at
this example.
i++;    /* This variable is being incremented.  I am commenting *         * this because it is such a stupid variable
name        */
 

Under my editor that comment lines up nicely but it will look cockeyed
for many people reading this because I used tabs instead of spaces and
my tabs are 4, not the usual 8.

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