RE: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files

[Drew Adams]

> > When we post patches, we generally create them
> > using `diff -c -w' AFAIK, which would seem to suggest an 
> > agnostic (or at least a loose) approach to indenting whitespace.
> 
> Actually, you should drop the -w when you generate patches, because it
> causes trouble for Patch (unless the -l switch to Patch is used, which
> is easily forgotten).

Really? I seem to recall someone mentioning here that -c -w was what was
preferred.