From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pete Forman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:28:33 +0000 Organization: WesternGeco, Gatwick, UK Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1204896030 32627 80.91.229.12 (7 Mar 2008 13:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 14:20:47 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 1JXcVC-0003Au-DT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:20:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXcUe-0008PP-I4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXcUa-0008Oo-0l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXcUZ-0008OR-7O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXcUZ-0008OO-2B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXcUY-0003Ll-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:20:06 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JXcUV-000191-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:20:03 +0000 Original-Received: from dhcp-132-gnd-136.crawley.eur.slb.com ([136.250.132.136]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:20:03 +0000 Original-Received: from pete.forman by dhcp-132-gnd-136.crawley.eur.slb.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:20:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-132-gnd-136.crawley.eur.slb.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.5-b28 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:89NGWtIaswLxusbRQQDwTTOTHeA= 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:91630 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> The Emacs source should generally follow the GNU Coding 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. -- Pete Forman -./\.- Disclaimer: This post is originated WesternGeco -./\.- by myself and does not represent pete.forman@westerngeco.com -./\.- the opinion of Schlumberger or http://petef.22web.net -./\.- WesternGeco.