* Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild indentation (tabs vs. spaces) fascism ;^)
@ 2002-04-28 12:00 99% ` Alexander Gretencord
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From: Alexander Gretencord @ 2002-04-28 12:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Sunday 28 April 2002 05:38, Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Just as easily any decent editor can be configured to not use tab
> characters, and insert 4 spaces when you hit TAB once.
Sure you can (with any decent editor) but it doesn't make the real problem go
away.
> unless I pre-configure my VI, emacsen and terminals for every possible
> combination of machines and accounts.
Well it's not our problem that your homedirectories don't contain your editor
startup files. Besides that, the ebuilds will look just fine without you
setting anything. The tabstop=4 (or whatever) thing comes into play with real
source code where you have plenty of indentation where you want to see all of
the code without making your terminal bigger (if you can). With tabs you can
do this as Bruce pointed out already with spaces you're doomed.
Alex
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