TabsVsSpaces

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This is one of the CommonGripes and one of the HolyWars.

[Jamie Zawinski] has a great [page] on this subject.

I would some up his views and add a few of my own as follows:

Use the tab key as a command not a character
Use tab to space expansion
Use tab to invoke your editor's indentation algorithms
Do not use tab as an actual character (except in Makefiles)
Do not mix tab and space as indentation characters (if you are using tab at all)

Thoughts?

There's an interesting discussion between "tab people" and "space people" at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TabsVersusSpaces .