From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: brobecker@adacore.com
Cc: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903230755.n2N7tCde007045@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090323011202.GA9472@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:02 -0700)
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:02 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > 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. Tabs make it hard for everything:
> hard to edit/navigate in your editor (unless you have a mode that
> makes it transparent for you?), 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)
I smell another bikeshed, sigh.
If you're really serious, get all the other GNU projects to agree,
convince the GNU emacs developers to make this the default, and wait a
couple of years for the new version of emacs to be released and
adopted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 0:22 Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 1:12 ` Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 1:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-03-23 1:31 ` Pedro Alves
2009-03-23 3:54 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2009-03-23 6:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-23 4:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-03-23 12:49 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2009-03-23 14:30 ` Joel Brobecker
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