[antlr-interest] Control of tab settings in ANTLR 2.7

Guntis Ozols guntiso at latnet.lv
Wed Nov 28 06:46:53 PST 2007


> Strange, I suppose nobody cares about the column number! Well they
> can't can they. It doesn't work with any tabs as it stands. Perhaps
> nobody uses tabs.
>
> I wonder what the position is in ANTLR 3.0?

Tab size is still 'officially' 8 chars, and I'm glad Terrence knows that
(although his java editor for v3 doesn't, and produces jumbled code).

Of course, you can not use tabs in your code if you want it to look fine.
I'm replacing tabs with spaces in my editor for years...



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