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On Sunday 03 August 2003 7:48 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> historically all bash pieces of code have been taborized and if you look |
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> through the current tree, the vast majority are tabbed ... |
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Good for them ;-) |
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> the other reason i like tabs is we're looking at 1 byte vs 4 (or more) :) |
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Lots of laughter. And how many extra pages on disk would be required if |
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spaces were used instead of tabs? ;-) |
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Sorry, but your arguments aren't convincing me yet that |
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a) This belongs in the coding standards at all, and |
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b) That tabs are the way to do this |
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I guess I'm just a cantankerous old bugger, as we say over here ;-) |
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Take care, |
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Stu |
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