From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:34:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:34:43 -0500 Received: from bitmover.com ([192.132.92.2]:4760 "EHLO mail.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:34:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:43:03 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Russ Allbery Cc: Felix Domke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Indention - why spaces? Message-ID: <20021230034303.GA11425@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Russ Allbery , Felix Domke , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 07:33:20PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Felix Domke writes: > > > i don't want to change anything, i just like to know WHY people use > > spaces. are they somehow unportable? (i don't think so) > > Quouting from that page: That ensures that, even if I happened to insert a literal tab in the file by hand (or if someone else did when editing this file earlier), those tabs get expanded to spaces when I save. If you are using a source management system, pretty much *any* source management system, doing this will cause all the lines to be "rewritten" if they had tabs. The fact that this person would advocate changing code that they didn't actually change shows a distinct lack of clue. No engineer who works for an even semi-pro company would dream of doing this. At BitMover, anyone who seriously advocated this for more than a day would be fired. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm