From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:00:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pbhxter.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <009f01c88077$be286100$0600a8c0@us.oracle.com> (drew.adams@oracle.com)
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:21:55 -0800
>
> When we post patches, we generally create them
> using `diff -c -w' AFAIK, which would seem to suggest an agnostic (or at
> least a loose) approach to indenting whitespace.
Actually, you should drop the -w when you generate patches, because it
causes trouble for Patch (unless the -l switch to Patch is used, which
is easily forgotten).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-08 13:00 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 [this message]
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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