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Posted by dorayme on 10/10/06 21:29
In article <u1SWg.98$1n3.2481@news.tufts.edu>,
John Salerno <johnjsal@NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> patrick j wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:57:38 +0100, dorayme wrote
> > (in article
> > <doraymeRidThis-947387.14573810102006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>):
> >
> >> The trouble is that no indenting is easier to edit... trust me on
> >> this.
> >
> > This is true :)
>
> How is that easier? What about using spaces?
Go do it and see, do hundreds of pages. Do it over a long time.
When editing, you will be forever messing about if the text is
all nicely formatted and indented like crazy. If it is all banged
up to the left, just line breaks to help the eye, there is much
less to be distracted by. You can just concentrate on the
content. Yes, i know you can edit and later use a Tidy. But it is
a messy ugly at thing at the time. As for "live formatting", it
is too nerve jangling.
What I have sometimes done (but can't even be bothered to do any
more) is get a Tidy to reformat nicely when the work is done. And
keep a 'plain' master copy for later edits. But now, for example,
if I cannot find the source of trouble in plainly formatted
source on local machine, and want a nicer formatted version to
assist the eye, I just "View Source" in a browser not set to
deliver my local text.
--
dorayme
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