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How many avocados does a tab represent? |
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold@g.o>wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:15:08AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> > El lun, 15-04-2013 a las 07:21 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: |
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> > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200 |
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> > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > > I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this |
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> > > > rule set in devmanual: |
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> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace |
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> > > > |
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> > > > It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from? |
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> Why |
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> > > > 8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8 |
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> spaces |
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> > > > equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS reports in |
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> > > > gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4. |
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> > > Hmm, does that have implications on anything else but counting line |
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> > > width? |
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> > Well, I was a bit surprised an ebuild I was thinking was looking in a |
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> > way, was really shown a bit different when, for example, simply running |
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> > less over it :/ |
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> A tab is a tab. How wide it is, is up to you. The convention is that |
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> four spaces should be replace by a tab. You can configure tab width |
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> for your terminal with: |
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> setterm -regtabs 4 |
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> If you want to, that is. |
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> -- |
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> Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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> Email : titanofold@g.o |
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