From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:19:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204886057 29028 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 10:34:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 11:34:44 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JXZuU-00066r-Nr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXZtv-0000eD-Un for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:34:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXZfo-0004yi-L8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXZfk-0004xe-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXZfj-0004xP-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXZff-0005Dc-3i; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E58F340E1; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 11:19:20 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Imagine--a WORLD without POODLES... In-Reply-To: (Glenn Morris's message of "Thu\, 06 Mar 2008 23\:33\:24 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:91619 Archived-At: Glenn Morris writes: > 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. The Emacs source should generally follow the GNU Coding Standards . Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."