Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 05:56 UTC
Message-ID: <85lka2ffmk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710161559150.6887@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

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> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:
>> 
>> But you then dismiss out of hand the option of using all spaces
>
> I do indeed. I don't think it's sensible.

Actually, it seriously degrades (both performance and savings) deltifying once you reach an indentation of 16.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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