ryanbooker

Do not go from Perforce to Subversion. Whatever you decide. That is a massive step backwards.

Isn't this an April fool's joke?

That's hardly the point now is it? You knew exactly what the expression I used means in this context.

That sounds like it is simply indenting the whole line... not reformatting the actual block... i.e. respacing internally within the line. Which is what the elastic tabstops is doing.

It's not simply realigning each line. It's reformatting the entire block, realigning ALL tabstops within the lines, so that blocks of text are all positioned within a grid.

This elastic tabs thingy, REINDENTS everything based on what you type on the next line... keeping your code formatted in consistent blocks.

Honest question: Is that what emacs does?

Where does this guy think WYSWYG editors come from and what does he think happens under the hood?

It's a surprising article from Ars. Apple is a massively successful and profitable company. They don't need to commoditise OSX. They're not trying to compete on market share. They're trying make money by making better computers. Something they are doing very well thank you very much.