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Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 18:12:02 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> > I'm also applying these further fixes.
>
> (I can't help myself, sorry)
>
> You know, the current whitespace rule has been really bugging me
> since day one. I would be a very very happy camper if we got rid
> of tabs and just used spaces. Tabs make it hard for everything:
> hard to edit/navigate in your editor (unless you have a mode that
> makes it transparent for you?), and harder to read patches
> (space display can get off because of the extra character that is
> being put on the first column of each line of the diff).
>
> Iiiiiiihhh!
>
> (nervous breakdown)
I smell another bikeshed, sigh.
If you're really serious, get all the other GNU projects to agree,
convince the GNU emacs developers to make this the default, and wait a
couple of years for the new version of emacs to be released and
adopted.