From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 9 11:17:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D803B37BEB5; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 11:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13MaPg-0007q2-00; Wed, 09 Aug 2000 20:17:12 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:17:12 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: Ben Smithurst , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TAB vs 8. Spaces (was Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml) Message-ID: <20000809201712.B30032@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200008051641.JAA35521@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:11:20PM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed 2000-08-09 (19:11), Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > The size of the diff worried me. The main reason is the amount of > TABs in revision 1.87. The FDP Primer demands spaces for indentation > and my tool sticks to that rule. > > What's the general opinion about using TABs as a shortcut for indentation? It's spaces until you fill a tab, then it's a tab. 2 spaces, 4 spaces, 6 spaces, tab, tab and 2 spaces, tab and 4 spaces, tab and 6 spaces, 2 tabs, 2 tabs and 2 spaces. Actually, I'm not at all sure if emacs does it this way. Vim does, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message