From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1365974524.26280.2.camel@localhost> (raw)
I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this
rule set in devmanual:
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from? Why
8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8 spaces
equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS reports in
gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4.
Thanks for the info
next reply other threads:[~2013-04-14 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-14 21:22 Pacho Ramos [this message]
2013-04-14 21:25 ` [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents Ciaran McCreesh
2013-04-14 22:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2013-04-15 5:21 ` Michał Górny
2013-04-15 6:15 ` Pacho Ramos
2013-04-15 11:10 ` Aaron W. Swenson
2013-04-15 19:06 ` Alec Warner
2013-04-15 20:05 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2013-04-17 18:26 ` Mike Frysinger
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