Tabs vs Spaces

[Prakash]

I am not a fan of Tab character in the src code and particularly in
opensource environement where people use different editors to
develop.

with my experience with Open source development, we have a policy to
use spaces instead of tabs.

A header file that I am looking at has mix of spaces and tabs
character used. This makes the likes of code incorrectly indented.

it would be nice if there is a policy that only spaces are used coz a
space looks like a space on all editors while Tab can appear
differently from editor to editor.

What do you think?

[Artem Iglikov]

Usually, I always use Tabs, because pressing Tab is much quicker, than
4 spaces and not all editors have a feature to use spaces instead of
tabs, but most of them have configurable Tab length. But if you think
that spaces will be more convenient, I don't mind.

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[Prakash Nadar]

Hi,
I have configured the editor to replace tab char with 4 spaces (that is
the requirement of the opensource project that I work for) :)

Will see how it goes, during the day I realised tha that most of the
files has tab characters instead of spaces, so it would not really be a
value addition to replace all of them with spaces.

Lets stick to what we have right now.

-prakash