Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:39:33 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tabs and spaces in www and doc Message-ID: <1110271173.3928.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050308083345.GB994@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <200503080336.j283aPuE084945@freefall.freebsd.org> <1110268418.3928.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050308083345.GB994@eddie.nitro.dk>
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:33 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.03.08 08:53:38 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > > Again, another thing I'm sure there's a good reason for, but why do www > > (and doc, I suppose) use two spaces up until you get to 8, and then use > > a tab? Why not use tabs and set the width to two spaces? Spaces make it > > a real hassle to (re)format ;). > > The convention is documented in the FDP Primer, but some doc/ and most > www/ have a rather inconsistent style... (read: is a big mess :-) ). > Aha. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing- style.html#AEN3202 Perhaps I'll write some clean-up scripts (MUCH later ;)) --Devon
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