From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@gmx.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: emacs and "linux" coding style
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:21:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100718092148.GD4684@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1007181149560.3666@localhost.localdomain>
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:10:09PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>
> FWIW that way will show the parameters unaligned to anyone using a
> different tab length. There is one way to align such lines properly:
As Randy said, the One True Tab Stop Length is 8. I don't think
that's going to change anytime soon. You might as well complain that
things don't look right if you like to use a font with variable width
characters...
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-18 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 14:00 emacs and "linux" coding style Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-07-13 22:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-14 6:12 ` Theodore Tso
2010-07-15 11:46 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-07-17 9:21 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-07-17 13:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-07-17 23:18 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-07-18 7:15 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-07-18 9:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-07-18 9:10 ` Dimitrios Apostolou
2010-07-18 9:21 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-07-18 21:53 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-07-18 9:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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