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Re: usage of tab in the indentation...
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>
> > For my part, I just use emacs' default formatting, which
> > pretty much relieves me of worrying about formatting, since
> > it almost always conforms to the coding standard. And emacs
> > uses tabs. It would be a nuisance for me to have to change.
>
> That's fair enough. I know it would cause some of us some problems
> to switch to spaces, so wasn't really hoping for a change in policy,
> but I'm still curious as to why we used tabs and not spaces. What are
> the benefits?
There's no rule that you have to use tabs either.
Feel free to use spaces.
> In the meantime, I take it people will not yell if the indentation in a
> patch looks a bit bizarre :-)...
We're used to it. ;-)