Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

[Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org>]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:00:18AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > VIM can do autoindenting for some languages too. Works OK with Perl,
> > and C, and badly with Tcl (but doesn't everything?).
> [snip]
> 
> Generally, I am skeptical of autoindenting tools. I usually do it by hand.
> (I don't buy the write-first-indent-later coding philosophy.) Also, my
> indenting style is complex enough to elude tools like 'indent'. I firmly
> believe in doing something right, right from the start. If something isn't
> properly indented when first written, it's broken and must be rewritten.

Huh?  Autoindenting happens while you're coding, not later.  That's the
whole point.

(Of course, Vim can do it after, too, but that makes it a mini-indent(1),
not autoindent.)

-- 
Glenn Maynard