Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?

[Romain Bardou <Romain.Bardou@lri.fr>]

>> That's actually nearly what Camelia has right now. Right now Camelia
>> insists on not dealing with tabs at all -- it converts them all to
>> spaces. This "feature" has to go obviously, and it's a few-liner to
>> convert between characters (which include tabs) and columns.
> 
> What do you mean with this? Reason I ask is that in OcalIDE an option to
> save files with spaces only, was added because it allows one to 
> simultaneously edit files in various editors, each with its own tab
> "length". If not, indenting is not maintained. I myself think that
> avoiding tabs altogether is a good solution.

I agree.

Even without changing your editor, you can change the tab length.

Moreover, if the editor uses tabs and counts them as more than one 
character (default behavior of emacs) it won't be able to locate errors 
correctly.

Finally, when you use backspace to delete one space and suddenly it 
deletes eight of them because it was actually a tab, it's annoying 
because it's unpredictable.

Altogether, this means that if you edit a file and put tabs in it, it 
may work for you, but it may annoy the people you give your file to :p

-- 
Romain Bardou