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Re: core.whitespace space-in-indent feature request

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Drew Northup <drew.northup@maine.edu>
Date
Jan 18, 2011, 19:51 UTC
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On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:40 +0100, Victor Engmark wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> I couldn't find this mentioned anywhere, but it would be useful for
> languages where you typically want only tab characters in indentation,
> like makefiles. Would be equivalent or similar to indent-with-non-tab
> and tabwidth=1.

Victor, What would the point of this be? Git doesn't change the layout of the code when storing it--that's up to the thing between the chair and the keyboard.

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  1. Victor EngmarkJan 14, 2011
  2. Drew NorthupJan 18, 2011
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 18, 2011
  4. Victor EngmarkJan 19, 2011
  5. Johannes SixtJan 19, 2011
  6. Victor EngmarkJan 19, 2011

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