In the page at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.indenting.php, it is advised to use space instead of tab as it causes issue with diff, patches. Here is the excerpt from the page.Use an indent of 4 spaces, with no tabs. This helps to avoid problems with diffs, patches, SVN history and annotations.So, my question is if we are using tabs everywhere, how it is going to affect these commands?
How using tab affects commands like diff
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