> So change your tab size? That's true if you have a different sized monitor, no matter what the tab size. That's... kind of the point of using tabs. I think t

> So change your tab size? That's true if you have a different sized monitor, no matter what the tab size. That's... kind of the point of using tabs. I think that the point was that if your IDE displays tabs as 8 spaces, and you read code written by someone that sets their IDE to display tabs as 2 spaces, then the line lengths will display longer in your IDE. It "just works" when the writer has configured longer tabs than the reader, but not necessarily in the opposite direction. > Also, what do you mean "works"? The world doesn't explode if you view a file with a different tab size than it was created with. Again, kind of the point... One example: enforced line-length limits. If you are wrapping at 80 characters with tabs set to 2-spaces, you will display a longer than 80 characters when viewing with tabs set to 8-spaces.