Re: ruler-mode.el fix following whitespace cleanup

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:37:15 +0100
> From: Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>
> 
> > Because if you do, any 
> > reindentation you do on a block of code will change the whitespace there 
> > to something that many developers (and the GNU standards, AFAIK) consider 
> > as non-canonical whitespace usage.
> 
> I've found nothing about spaces vs. tabs at
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards.html

I was drawing conclusions from the default Emacs behavior ;-)

I will let Richard give the definitive ruling on this.