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mixing tabs and spaces is kind of like hitting your head against the=20
wall: causes unnecessary headaches.

the solution? don't do that.

You either chase semicolons and {} in C or just make the whitespace neat=20
in python.

Gorka guardiola wrote:
> =BFIsn't cut & paste fun in python?, specially if you have half of the
> files with code
> indented with tabs and the other half with spaces like the Xen stuff di=
d
> the last time I looked into it. Invisible syntax rocks!!.
>=20
>=20
> On 1/5/07, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> reminiscent of the 'free your mind Luke' discussion a few years ago on
>> indents in code and Acme and fonts and  ...
>>
>> I'm finding that I am counting spaces in acme when I get the
>> occasional python 'unindent' error. You may think those columns are
>> aligned, but that's just the proportional font showing.
>>
>> Guess I gotta find a fixed font for editing in acme.