Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Monday 23 March 2009 01:12:02, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I'm also applying these further fixes.
> 
> (I can't help myself, sorry)
> 
> You know, the current whitespace rule has been really bugging me
> since day one. I would be a very very happy camper if we got rid
> of tabs and just used spaces. 

I suspect that the interim period between using tabs and not using
tabs would take a while, and would be a bigger mess, unless we
did wholesale conversion.

> Tabs make it hard for everything: 
> hard to edit/navigate in your editor (unless you have a mode that
> makes it transparent for you?), 

I can't tell if this was real question?  Emacs makes it mostly
transparent.

I also use this mode to easily spot breakage:
 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace

> and harder to read patches 
> (space display can get off because of the extra character that is
> being put on the first column of each line of the diff).
> 
> Iiiiiiihhh!
> 
> (nervous breakdown)
> 

:-) :-)

Yeah... I can't say I love them either, but...
as long as we have them, might as well be consistent, m'kay?

-- 
Pedro Alves