From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Aug 10 13:56:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruhr.de (in-ruhr2.ruhr.de [141.39.224.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7572637BAB8 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ue@nathan.ruhr.de) Received: (qmail 88871 invoked by alias); 10 Aug 2000 20:58:34 -0000 Received: (from ue@localhost) by nathan.ruhr.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA19107; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:57:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ue) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:57:09 +0200 From: Udo Erdelhoff To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Darryl Okahata , 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: <20000810225709.I3413@nathan.ruhr.de> References: <20000809201712.B30032@mithrandr.moria.org> <200008091849.LAA01748@mina.soco.agilent.com> <20000809212025.H3413@nathan.ruhr.de> <20000809213331.A31191@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000809213331.A31191@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:33:31PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > Er, yes, it does use tabs. Go to line 67 of fdp-primer/book.sgml. Not > that's a tab, not 8 spaces. I stand corrected. Note to self: Next time, check the complete document, not just the section with the indentation rules... > In short, ts=8 sw=2 sts=2: tabstop at 8 spaces, but insert soft-tabstops > of 2 spaces when you press tab, and shift width two at a time (with << > and >>). That's strange - I'm using those settings, too and I tried everything I could think of. Still, the vim over here refused to convert spaces into tabs, even when reformatting whole para > I think this is a documentation problem. *grin* That's why this discussion is on -doc and not -bugs ;-> /s/Udo -- Rome wasn't built by doing homework and taking tests. It was built by killing all those who opposed them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message