they where set manually. OK, fair enough.
How is that pertinent to indenting computer source code?
> > These are opinions, not facts.
> > How do we know that tab stops where never standard?
> "Tab stops are set manually, ..."
> >> latin1 would need to be used for the older Erlang source code that requires it (probably all of OTP) which unfortunately makes the emacs modeline more than 80 characters.  Having both an emacs and a vi modeline can keep both sets of users happy.
> >> It is typical to avoid tabs and prefer spaces, so it would be nice to have that be standard, since the OTP code is becoming unreadable due to characters that don't matter (due to not making a decision, you are still deciding to allow both tabs and spaces).  Tab stops were never standard and only really relate to typewriters historically (who uses those for Erlang?).
> >>>> is the common enemy!
> >>>> sold the idea to someone else, but that doesn't always work).
> >>>> connection with a release.
> >>> Ulf Wiger, Co-founder & Developer Advocate, Feuerlabs Inc.