From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: usage of tab in the indentation...
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 17:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D813833.9128F708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020912194531.GC1105@gnat.com>
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> > For my part, I just use emacs' default formatting, which
> > pretty much relieves me of worrying about formatting, since
> > it almost always conforms to the coding standard. And emacs
> > uses tabs. It would be a nuisance for me to have to change.
>
> 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?
There's no rule that you have to use tabs either.
Feel free to use spaces.
> In the meantime, I take it people will not yell if the indentation in a
> patch looks a bit bizarre :-)...
We're used to it. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-13 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 12:06 Joel Brobecker
2002-09-12 12:24 ` Michael Snyder
2002-09-12 12:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2002-09-12 14:13 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-09-12 17:58 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2002-09-12 18:26 ` Tom Tromey
2002-09-12 18:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-09-19 4:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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