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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:22:01 -0500
From:      Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
To:        Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources contain 152225 trailing whitespaces :-)
Message-ID:  <20000118112201.A44535@rtfm.net>
In-Reply-To: <kqpuuzy57w.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de>; from Thomas Gellekum on Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:44:19PM %2B0100
References:  <200001181134.MAA45912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <kqpuuzy57w.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de>

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:44:19PM +0100, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> 
> > Also, don't forget all those source lines where spaces could be
> > unexpanded into tabs.  There's an awfully lot of these, too. ;)
> 
> Tabs should be expanded to four spaces, as everyone knows.

Err...why? Leaving them as tabs allows anyone to use whatever tabstops
they want (four? eight? two?).

> tg

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