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From: Pete Forman <pete.forman@westerngeco.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:28:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tzjizpji.fsf@wgmail2.gatwick.eur.slb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: f7ccd24b0803070318v69d607behb4991b51d8c998d2@mail.gmail.com

"Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:

 > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>
>>  The Emacs source should generally follow the GNU Coding Standards
>>  <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/>.
>
 > Where does it say whether to use tabs or spaces? (I never seem to find
 > that section.)

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html#Errors

That is talking about compiler messages and column numbers.  Working
backwards, that implies that source files may contain hard tabs, which
are size 8.  I did not see anything which says which says whether hard
tabs _should_ be used or not.
-- 
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WesternGeco                  -./\.-   by myself and does not represent
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-07 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-07  4:33 tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Glenn Morris
2008-03-07  4:44 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-07 10:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2008-03-07 11:18   ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 12:28     ` Pete Forman [this message]
2008-03-07 14:56       ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 15:02         ` Johan Bockgård
2008-03-07 15:10           ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-07 17:11             ` Karl Fogel
2008-03-08  0:38               ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-03-08 12:58               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-08 20:52                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-08 21:13               ` Bill Wohler
2008-03-08 23:56                 ` Miles Bader
2008-03-09 16:39                 ` Richard Stallman
2008-03-07 17:21             ` Drew Adams
2008-03-08 13:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-03-08 23:19                 ` Drew Adams
2008-03-09  2:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2008-03-08 17:40 ` Richard Stallman

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