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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: underline-line
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:59:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091225055919.GA2531@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fx70peup.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com>

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On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 04:32:30PM +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:

[...]

> The only place where prefix tabs are allowed, for historical reasons
> is in Makefile.  
> 
> And since alot of people are switching to things such as ant,

Ouch. Not that 'm very fond of Makefile's tab, but I'll take leading tabs
before XML any day :-(

>                                                                 perhaps
> we could have a big switch over to spaces.  It would be enough that
> the few make providers agree on a date [...]

No need for that. Make providers agreeing on accepting leading
whitespace instead of just tabs would be backwards compatible and it'll
slowly do away with tabs. But I don't believe it to be important enough.

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-25  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-24 11:06 underline-line Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-24 11:23 ` underline-line Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-24 12:21   ` underline-line Reiner Steib
2009-12-24 12:50     ` underline-line Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-24 15:32 ` underline-line Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-25  5:59   ` tomas [this message]
2009-12-25  6:33   ` underline-line Cecil Westerhof
2009-12-25 23:07     ` underline-line Tim X
2009-12-25 23:52       ` underline-line Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-12-26  7:03         ` underline-line Tim X
2009-12-26  9:21       ` underline-line Cecil Westerhof
     [not found]   ` <mailman.167.1261721014.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-25 22:57     ` underline-line Tim X

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