Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Oct 17, 2007, 19:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710171243060.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <1192649598.6640.44.camel@athena>

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Tom Tobin wrote:

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> > 
> > Well, let's put it this way: that "sample" is the one that started the 
> > project.
> 
> And therefore your choices become magically reasonable?

They sure as hell automatically become a lot more relevant than YOUR choices, don't they?

> Every single damn editor out there can handle spaces.

Yes, and they'll start mixing spaces and tabs when they auto-indent.

		Linus

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