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On Sunday 03 August 2003 7:48 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> historically all bash pieces of code have been taborized and if you look
> through the current tree, the vast majority are tabbed ...

Good for them ;-)

> the other reason i like tabs is we're looking at 1 byte vs 4 (or more) :)

Lots of laughter.  And how many extra pages on disk would be required if=20
spaces were used instead of tabs? ;-)

Sorry, but your arguments aren't convincing me yet that

a) This belongs in the coding standards at all, and
b) That tabs are the way to do this

I guess I'm just a cantankerous old bugger, as we say over here ;-)

Take care,
Stu
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