Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@mit.edu>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 03:08 UTC
Message-ID: <B01BBB60-6231-4AF6-9A64-10374464E442@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710161722320.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 16 Oct 2007, at 8:45:51 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And is it really so unreasonable to just say "8-character tabs are the
> gold standard"?

It's unreasonable not to list that anywhere.

mfwitten

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