From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 3 9:26:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A4137B718; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:26:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f33GQ1K46021; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:26:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f33GOep18268; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010403171608.E12452@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 09:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, Jim Mock Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 03-Apr-01 Ben Smithurst wrote: > [ moved from -committers to -doc ] > > Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > >> I do not see the word "tab" in there. But maybe it is time to add this word >> to this chapter. As in "Do NOT use tabs." > > If the word "tab" gets added it should be in the form "leading sets of > 8 spaces on a line should be replaced by a single tab" or something, in > fact I'm sure I remember reading that *was* the rule for documentation > at one point, though it certainly doesn't say that in the FDP primer. > Perhaps Nik can comment since he's ultimately in charge. It's the way almost every editor in the world functions. Well, vim and {x,}emacs do at least. :) Also, see style(9). Stating that we use a 2 space indentation does not preclude using "optimal fill". We use a 4 space second level indent in code, but we don't use spaces to indent that entire line of code. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message