I say this as a current emacs user and a former vim user, as someone who has no interest in holy wars, who just wants for everybody to get along and (hopefully) inter-operate. Changing two lines in your .vimrc or .emacs file is a small price to pay to avoid me wringing your fucking neck if you ever try to send me tabbed-up code.

I mean it Ben. Don’t test me.

The advice proposed in your link is utter crap, though, forcing anyone who edits your code to dink around with their editor until it conforms to your standard – instead of writing files with tabs and letting everyone’s editor sort out what a tab means.

thus further alientating the vi users from the emacs users. perpetuating wars.