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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2009-10-04, 23:55

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Originally Posted by Kickaha View Post
When you're dealing with a text file where one person's editor inserts tabs, one inserts 4 spaces instead of tabs, one inserts 2 spaces instead of tabs, etc, etc, etc... it falls apart. If you have a standardized whitespace creation methodology across your editors and IDEs, then it works beautifully.
It also becomes troublesome when working with version control software. Merging changes that alter indentation can be "painful" to say the least.
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