From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 09:29:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D52816A4CE; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:29:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 939C043D58; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:29:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:27:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20050308085202.GC994@eddie.nitro.dk> References: <200503080336.j283aPuE084945@freefall.freebsd.org><1110268418.3928.2.camel@localhost.localdomain><20050308083345.GB994@eddie.nitro.dk><1110271173.3928.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050308085202.GC994@eddie.nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:29:15 +0100 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tabs and spaces in www and doc X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 09:29:19 -0000 On Mar 8, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2005.03.08 09:39:33 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> 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. > > Indeed :-) - the documentation project does document some of these > things :-). > >> 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 ;)) > > Note that the current defacto policy with regards to whitespace and > similar sweeping changes is that there should be a reason to do it > (ie. it's getting in the way of real work), since there are downsides > to doing a style sweep. I think the last thread about this which > contained more details was on doc or cvs-doc last autumn. > > Just so you don't waste time on something that's not going to be > committed. I'll stick to the "2 space indent, 8 space tab" rule. /czv