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Re: Question for removing trailing whitespaces (not vertical tab) from source
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:02:44PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> Can you explain that value? It's just that 1) I see vast acres and acres of
> code where the tabstop size is two spaces 2) the coding standard doesn't seem
> to /demand/ a specific tab size and 3) if we use 8-space TABs with the kind of
> depths of nesting the gcc code often contains we're going to exceed the
> 80-column line length limit just on the leading indentation alone pretty
> often....
GCC indents with tabs replacing eight leading spaces but an indentation
depth of two spaces. I don't know where your acres and acres are,
but they aren't in most GNU software. This is, unsurprisingly, how
emacs behaves.
Personally I think that regardless of your indentation preferences,
using anything besides eight column tab stops for \t is silly; that's
what "cat" is going to use.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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