From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8763vympbr.fsf@red-bean.com> <87pru4q5qe.fsf@olgas.newt.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205080817 25506 80.91.229.12 (9 Mar 2008 16:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 16:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bill Wohler Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 09 17:40:45 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 1JYOZn-0001UB-48 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:40:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZE-0002Qy-SH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOZ0-0002Ig-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOYt-0002A3-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JYOYt-00029p-NP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOYt-0003UI-MS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:47 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JYOYt-0006nC-2q; Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:39:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <87pru4q5qe.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (message from Bill Wohler on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:13:29 -0800) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:91882 Archived-At: In addition to generating unreadable diffs, tabbed programs also produce unreadable output in a terminal window or when printed. If you are trying to argue for eliminating tabs in GNU source code, I certainly won't do that, so there is no use arguing for it. Please understand that this question is already decided.