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From: | Bruce Dubbs |
Subject: | bug#17012: [3 PATCHES] Whitespace cleanup : Replace code-alignment tabs with spaces. |
Date: | Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:32:21 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 |
Jim Meyering wrote:
Tabs in code are indeed evil. Different users have different tab stops. I would convert *all* tabs to spaces and add to each file: /* -*- tab-width:8; intent-tabs-mode:nil; -*- */ /* ex: set tabstop=8 expandtab: */For the record, I think that such comments should be made unnecessary. I.e., maintain coding standards with enough automated infrastructure that that type of crutch is not required. See the guidelines in coreutils' HACKING file. Speaking of which, grep's HACKING needs a refresher.
Interesting. Looking at the coreutils-8.22 tarball, there is no HACKING file. It's not in the coreutils-8.17 tarball either. It is in the git tree though.
-- Bruce
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