Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 19:36 UTC
Message-ID: <20071016193605.GA829@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710161214530.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
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> > * Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten <mfwitten AT MIT.EDU>
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> > > However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted
> > > information to be bandying about.
> > 
> > Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs
> > are the source of too many problems.
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> No.
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> Tabs are 8 spaces wide. Live with it. It's the only sane solution.

Actually, part of the mess with tabs is due to the fact they're not exactly 8 spaces wide, but any width that ends at a multiple of 8 characters from the start of the line. So 0 <= n < 8 spaces and a tab is still 8 spaces.

Anyways, it's maybe just simpler to run indent before sending patches.

Mike