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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: pacho@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 05:20:52
Message-Id: 20130415072130.37a813d8@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents by Pacho Ramos
1 On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200
2 Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this
5 > rule set in devmanual:
6 > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
7 >
8 > It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from? Why
9 > 8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8 spaces
10 > equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS reports in
11 > gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4.
12
13 Hmm, does that have implications on anything else but counting line
14 width?
15
16 --
17 Best regards,
18 Michał Górny

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