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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:40:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JY31m-0006mQ-Lb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m5y78vcfvv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:33:24 -0500)

    Is there a convention on whether tabs or spaces should be used to
    indent Emacs's source files, or is it up to the maintainer of a given
    file? I don't want to propose one or the other, just ask if there's a
    standard.

You may as well always tabs, since they save space, and avoiding them
in any one file does no good.

Texinfo files are an exception; they are input for TeX so they should
not have tabs.  Texinfo mode takes care of that.





      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-08 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-07  4:33 tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Glenn Morris
2008-03-07  4:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-07 10:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-07 11:18   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 12:28     ` Pete Forman
2008-03-07 14:56       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 15:02         ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-07 15:10           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 17:11             ` Karl Fogel
2008-03-08  0:38               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-08 12:58               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-08 20:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-08 21:13               ` Bill Wohler
2008-03-08 23:56                 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-09 16:39                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 17:21             ` Drew Adams
2008-03-08 13:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-08 23:19                 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-09  2:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-08 17:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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