Am I the only person who finds these arguments childish?  Why can't people just respect whatever style the original author chose?<p>Also one of the best things you can can do to help avoid a lot of this frustration, is put those comments at the end of every source code file that configure indents for <i>both</i> emacs and vim.  It makes switching between 4 and 8 space indents a bit less irritating.