Re: [gentoo-dev] The official answer on tabs and spaces

[Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>]

Daniel Robbins wrote:	[Fri Oct 19 2001, 12:26:30PM EST]
> The correct, official way is to use a single tab per indent.  Tabs
> should not be converted to spaces, and multiple spaces should not be
> used in place of tabs.  This way, people can use any tabstop they like
> and everything still is correctly indented.

Thanks Daniel.  Sorry I wasn't aware that you had an official policy.

In support of this, here's something Vim users can put in their .vimrc
to make sure it's done correctly for ebuilds.  Of course, you can use
whatever value you like in place of 4.

    augroup gentoo
        au!
        au BufRead *.ebuild set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 noexpandtab
    augroup END

Alternatively, you could do the following, which would affect not only
ebuilds but anything you would edit that pertains to Gentoo.

    if (getcwd() =~ 'gentoo-x86\|gentoo-src\|portage')
        set tabstop=4 shiftwidth=4 noexpandtab
    endif

Aron