From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32356 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2009 01:26:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 32348 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2009 01:26:56 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:26:51 +0000 Received: (qmail 12472 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2009 01:26:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 23 Mar 2009 01:26:50 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: Joel Brobecker Subject: Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace. Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:31:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <200903222352.23415.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200903230022.04881.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090323011202.GA9472@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20090323011202.GA9472@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903230126.55000.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-03/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 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