[dezgeg]

In theory, it sounds like a nice idea that by having tabs, you could choose your own preferred indent width of something different than 8 columns. But in practice, this will cause problems, such as code written by you going over the maximum line length when viewed by people with 8 column tabs.

[Dewie]

My editor is set to wrap around on long lines... but that is again of course another thing that potentially has to be tweaked. That is something that is done when writing normal text (like in this text box here on this website), and is done in word processors, so it feels pretty natural.

Though I've used that (wrapping around) mostly when writing in Haskell, for some reason. In Java and whatever lines tend to not become too long, perhaps because I tend to use four space indent...