On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 13:12 -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Personally I find anything that would encourage people to use anything other
> than tabs evil anyways. All those people who think | is somehow a reasonable
> choice or want to use commas and then get all confused trying to escape them
> and invent ever more confused syntaxes for escaping the escape characters.
> Just use tab separated data like man was meant to.
>
I could not disagree more. The invisibility of tabs makes their use as a
delimiter wholly evil. I have lost count of the number of corrupted
makefiles etc. I have seen because a tab got converted to a space and it
was impossible to tell.
More tears have been shed over tabs used than tabs unused. (Apologies to
St Theresa).
We now return you to normal -hacking.
cheers
andrew