On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:44:46AM +0100, Michiel van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> Ok, this is not about the tabs vs. spaces debate itself. But the fact
> that there is a debate (some prefer to call it a holy war) means that
> there are those who prefer spaces and those who prefer tabs, both in no
> small amount). The sensible thing to do for Tidy then, would be to
> support _both_.
>
> However, the documentation states: "Tidy never outputs tabs".
> ...
Can't you postprocess it to add tabs? Fro example, on Unix/Linux the
command 'unexpand' will turn the right numbers of spaces to tabs:
tidy ... | unexpand
Presumeably the same sort of things are possible on other operating
systems.
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