From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27353 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2009 07:57:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 27344 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2009 07:57:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sibelius.xs4all.nl (HELO sibelius.xs4all.nl) (82.92.89.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:56:56 +0000 Received: from brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (kettenis@localhost.sibelius.xs4all.nl [127.0.0.1]) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2N7tDoe025062; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:55:14 +0100 (CET) Received: (from kettenis@localhost) by brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2N7tCde007045; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:55:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:49:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200903230755.n2N7tCde007045@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> From: Mark Kettenis To: brobecker@adacore.com CC: pedro@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20090323011202.GA9472@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker on Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:02 -0700) Subject: Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace. References: <200903222352.23415.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200903230022.04881.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20090323011202.GA9472@adacore.com> 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/msg00483.txt.bz2 > Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:02 -0700 > From: Joel Brobecker > > > 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.