Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 20:17:12 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> Cc: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <20000809201712.B30032@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 07:11:20PM %2B0200 References: <200008051641.JAA35521@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000809191120.G3413@nathan.ruhr.de>
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On Wed 2000-08-09 (19:11), Udo Erdelhoff wrote: > The size of the diff worried me. The main reason is the amount of > TABs in revision 1.87. The FDP Primer demands spaces for indentation > and my tool sticks to that rule. > > What's the general opinion about using TABs as a shortcut for indentation? It's spaces until you fill a tab, then it's a tab. 2 spaces, 4 spaces, 6 spaces, tab, tab and 2 spaces, tab and 4 spaces, tab and 6 spaces, 2 tabs, 2 tabs and 2 spaces. Actually, I'm not at all sure if emacs does it this way. Vim does, though. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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