From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1JYOYt-0006nC-2q@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pru4q5qe.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:13:29 -0800)
In addition to generating unreadable diffs, tabbed programs also
produce unreadable output in a terminal window or when printed.
If you are trying to argue for eliminating tabs in GNU source code,
I certainly won't do that, so there is no use arguing for it.
Please understand that this question is already decided.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-09 16:39 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 [this message]
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
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