Re: Reformat all of src/

["Phillip Lord" <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

On Wed, December 28, 2016 4:59 pm, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>>>> "PL" == Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
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> PL> FWIW (not very much) I think tabs suck...
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> If we were going to reformat all the sources, I'd rather we observe the
> rule "never use tabs". I don't see what benefit they possibly offer.

I don't know if there is a policy in the GNU coding guidelines or not, or
whether Emacs has one, but some visual indication of where it is (not)
being followed would be a good thing.

The commit hook already checks for some whitespace issues (spaces before
tabs for instance). Clearly adding something to this hook to enforce a
whitespace policy now would not work given that Emacs is inconsistent in
its use, unless it could be made to just check the diffed region perhaps,
which might be a way of "fix things as we go".

What the policy would be (if it does not exist), I care less about.

Phil