Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> Was "spaces instead of tabs" one of the voted-on options? That would
> make the tab issue moot, and would result in consistant appearance not
> matter what tab setting one is using.
Quite a good thought, actually. It'd be worth checking to see if there
is any material expansion in the source's disk footprint and/or the
size of a compressed tarball after getting rid of tabs entirely.
I'd be willing to vote for this if the space penalty is not large...
regards, tom lane