> "it's just better not to have to configure every system to interpret tabs to your given number of spaces" The entire point of "tabs to indent; spaces to alig

> "it's just better not to have to configure every system to interpret tabs to your given number of spaces" The entire point of "tabs to indent; spaces to align" is that you don't need to make sure everyone displays tabs the same way. If we are using that scheme and I have mine set to 4 spaces but you have yours set to 8, everything is fine. There is no problem there.