On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:50 PM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Cosmin Apreutesei > <cosmin.apreutesei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dunno about vim, but if what you refer to is something like "indent >> the line with tabs, but inside the line with spaces", > > Not quite - it's this strange practice of using four spaces to do one > indent, and then a tab for the second indent, four spaces plus tab for > the third, and so on. > > An odd compromise between two pointless religions. This "odd compromise" is so evil, that Git even has some code to detect it. (Part of git diff --check.) Alexander.