From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: underline-line
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:57:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6kqirvo.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.167.1261721014.18930.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
tomas@tuxteam.de writes:
> 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
Agree 100%.
--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au
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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 ` underline-line tomas
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 ` Tim X [this message]
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