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Re: Formatting, tabs vs spaces.

From: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
To: Chris Fairles <chris dot fairles at gmail dot com>, libstdc++ <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:42:18 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Formatting, tabs vs spaces.
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... so you are really following me in my nitpicking passion. Good, good ;)

Seriously, I think the general answer is easy: never use by-hand spaces. When you use a normally configured emacs, for example, you *never* press the spacebar for formatting purposes, only to separate words. In fact, since emacs is The reference GNU programmers tool, I would suggest just using it as such and configure any other tool to mimic its behavior.

Paolo.

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