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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

  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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