I have never seen this work correctly in practice, where a code base with tabs looks "OK" when opened on an editor with a different tab width. E.g. some coding styles will have subsequent lines line up (like multiline method params), and everything looks horrible with a different tab width.
If anyone can post a sizable production code base that uses tabs that DOESN'T look like shit with a different tab width, I'm certainly open to being proven wrong.
If anyone can post a sizable production code base that uses tabs that DOESN'T look like shit with a different tab width, I'm certainly open to being proven wrong.