From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev+bounces-59681-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BC61381F3 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0ADAE0955; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:22:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5ACEE0930 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (188.Red-83-37-89.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [83.37.89.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pacho) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E3A033DDED for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:22:08 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1365974524.26280.2.camel@localhost> Subject: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 42337c14-9293-4512-8f0f-1335d0260eda X-Archives-Hash: 40d5e32027ba8ceb20746c33ff1bf8a3 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