From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7119 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2002 21:13:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7112 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 21:13:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 21:13:52 -0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (nat-pool-rdu-dmz.redhat.com [172.16.52.200]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8CKvGw13991 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:57:16 -0400 Received: from potter.sfbay.redhat.com (potter.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.15]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8CLDjd12133; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:13:45 -0400 Received: from romulus.sfbay.redhat.com (IDENT:omNoGHB0lwBhlwPHQSsf2iT00/ku7fpY@romulus.sfbay.redhat.com [172.16.27.251]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8CLDiC16742; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:13:44 -0700 Received: (from kev@localhost) by romulus.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g8CLDgY04843; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:13:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:13:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner Message-Id: <1020912211341.ZM4842@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Joel Brobecker "Re: usage of tab in the indentation..." (Sep 12, 12:45pm) References: <20020912190625.GB1105@gnat.com> <3D80E9D5.5AACB552@redhat.com> <20020912194531.GC1105@gnat.com> To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: usage of tab in the indentation... Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00218.txt.bz2 On Sep 12, 12:45pm, Joel Brobecker wrote: > That's fair enough. I know it would cause some of us some problems > to switch to spaces, so wasn't really hoping for a change in policy, > but I'm still curious as to why we used tabs and not spaces. What are > the benefits? I'm not sure that there are any real benefits anymore, just inertia. ;-) At one time, I suspect that using tabs instead of spaces might've been viewed as a space (as in storage) conserving measure. One of the things which annoys me is that tabs mean different things to different people. I haven't found this to be an issue recently, but there have been times when I've worked with code where the size of the tab wasn't 8 and during those times, I wished we could all agree to just do away with tabs. > In the meantime, I take it people will not yell if the indentation in a > patch looks a bit bizarre :-)... I've gotten used to it. Kevin