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Date: Sat Nov 10 09:38:02 2001
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Andreas Voegele wrote:

BTW, if a single tab was used in front of dependencies the output
> would look like this:
> 
> tabwidth 4:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>     virtual/x11
> 
> tabwidth 8:
> 
> DEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> RDEPEND="virtual/glibc
>         virtual/x11
> 
> IMHO both outputs look good, and with this solution developers could
> still set the tabwidth to 4 or 8.

The problem with tabs comes in when you do stuff like:

local t
local u
t = "some string like this"        # comment here
u = "some other longer string"     # another comment

The comments will not necessarily line up when tabwidths are different.

Chad