Re: [gentoo-dev] About how many spaces a tab represents

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El lun, 15-04-2013 a las 07:21 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200
> Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Hmm, does that have implications on anything else but counting line
> width?
> 

Well, I was a bit surprised an ebuild I was thinking was looking in a
way, was really shown a bit different when, for example, simply running
less over it :/