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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


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