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Re: gcc: cleaning up top level config
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> alexr@spies.com (Alex Rosenberg) wrote on 12.11.02:
>> about the fact that MPW is built around the microcomputer concept that an
>> indent level is always equal to a tab, yet ya'll are still stuck with 8
>> character tabs thanks to some dumb terminal nobody can even name anymore and
>> you have rigid formatting rules that pretty much require the use of emacs?
> All I can say is, huh?!
To clarify what I *think* Alex is talking about, I believe most people
coding for GCC use space compression with tabs (replacing any aligned
sequence of eight spaces with an ASCII TAB), but in a quick perusal of the
GCC and GNU coding standards, I don't see any requirement for that.
I personally agree wholeheartedly with jwz on that count:
<http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html>
I'd be very happy if I never saw another ASCII TAB character again.
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