[graue]

When I was writing a lot of C, I settled on 8-column tabs (a style I copied from OpenBSD). Combined with an 80-column wide terminal, it prevents you from nesting too far down — 4 or 5 levels and you keep having to wrap, which is an automatic sign that "something is wrong, I need to refactor this."

[tptacek]

I was an 8spcr (default tabstop, tab-to-indent, learned C in pico). I've gone a year or two writing nothing but Ruby (where 2spc is the rule) and recently had to build a small C program, and oh my god is 8spc terrible.

But I'm also a single-return fetishist, so I tend to nest deeper than normal.