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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The official answer on tabs and spaces
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 05:16:48
Message-Id: 1003749494.6659.11.camel@zoidberg
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] The official answer on tabs and spaces by Djamil ESSAISSI
1 mån 2001-10-22 klockan 13.01 skrev Djamil ESSAISSI:
2 > :)The correct, official way is to use a single tab per indent. Tabs
3 > :)should not
4 > :)be converted to spaces, and multiple spaces should not be used in place
5 > :)of
6 > :)tabs. This way, people can use any tabstop they like and everything
7 > :)still
8 > :)is correctly indented.
9 >
10 > i was just trying to make a sentence saying the same thing.
11
12 Almost anyway, there are situation when this is not true though. For
13 example I think that all ebuilds should be readable without linewrapping
14 in 80 chars width.
15
16 If someone makes this look ok with 4 chars tabs that might not be true
17 for me with 8 chars tabs.
18
19 Regards,
20 Mikael Hallendal
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24 Mikael Hallendal
25 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
26 CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden