Arguments for Tabs (not spaces)
Most programmers are familiar with the age old "Spaces vs Tabs" debate. I'm pro tabs, and here's why:
Tabs are one single character.
If you're editor has regular expression search, \t will suffice to find all tabs. I don't see how this is as simple if you use spaces.
One tab, one indentation. This makes more correlative sense.
Programmers could set tab width regardless of who else wrote the code. If programmer A wrote with 4 spaces tabs, then programmer B would be stuck with 4 spaces, unless they had an editor that could convert the 4 spaces to tabs, and then back to 2 spaces, or whatever display width programmer B would want. This is too much to think about IMO. If pro. A wrote using tabs, then pro. B wouldn't have to do anything; his display width settings would have already been set, and it would display the tabs at a specific width wanted. In other words, tab characters can be presented in various ways (styled, so to speak) while spaces cannot; it's like using a bunch of elements to add space to your HTML document's presentation instead of just styling using CSS properties (margin, padding, etc).
Why wouldn't I love tabs? Give me some arguments against tabs, so that way I may counter-argument them, if I find it possible/logical.
Let the discussion begin, please. :)
