From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: underline-line Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:57:31 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87y6kqirvo.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87k4wc7hru.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> <87fx70peup.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261831546 17207 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2009 12:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:45:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 26 13:45:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NOW1a-0006wc-7S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:45:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NOW1a-0003uM-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:45:38 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u4gCwAKq3AyJsomczLPwgCNfUSM= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 8d4b98af.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=1KR\lPKBBd7UH[0COH:iH0L?0kYOcDh@:^gYlR9D^Ya6f7hJAGFlJg1_V27]Ag>aB0i`; mK]1>N\8 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175792 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70869 Archived-At: 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