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Re: OT: Why is C so popular?



On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:27:10AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:51, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:51:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > >     To get the behavior you describe you have to set tabstop to 4 so
> > > that it will go to the next multiple of 4.
> > 
> > No, you don't have to. Try setting softtabstop - much better.
> 
> what could be better than "works exactly as desired"?

tabstop *doesn't* work exactly as desired for me. (Shall we continue
with proof by assertion? :))

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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