Gregory's Server@catsalad Oh, I was a hardcore tab guy. Then I had a nicely-formatted router configuration file (with tab indents, naturally) and I pushed it into a router over serial.
You know what a *nix OS does when it sees a tab on the command line? It does *not* ignore it as white space. It thinks you want "tab completion" and will happily replace that tab with... Something. Something that will completely mess up your router configuration and take you hours to troubleshoot.
So now I'm a spaces guy.
@ericphelps
that's what happens when you pipe random text into an interactive (!) shell session??
maybe it was the router's crap interface that made you do it, so don't take it personally...
but if one time you threw soup into a running blender with no lid and it made a mess, do you complain about the blender and shun soup?
PS: edited to make this sound less malignant, sorry.