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Date:      Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:19:46 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A question regarding style
Message-ID:  <19991220091946.D38843@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <19991219212307.A4452@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
References:  <19991218200902.B26001@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991219212307.A4452@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>

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On Sun 1999-12-19 (21:23), Nik Clayton wrote:
> > This due to the fact that if you change indent levels you have to use
> > those 2 space indents anyways.
> 
> Don't particularly care.  I'm agnostic on the issue, as long as Xemacs works
> correctly :-)
> 
> For what it's worth, style(9) says
> 
>      Do not add whitespace at the end of a line, and only use tabs followed by
>      spaces to form the indentation.  Do not use more spaces than a tab will
>      produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs.
> 
> So a 10 character indent is one tab plus two spaces, not 10 spaces.  That
> seems to be what Xemacs does by default.

And is what vim with the fdp example .vimrc does.  I think we should
stick to it, since we've got a reasonable harmony between the xemacs
behaviour and a vim behaviour.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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