9 Apr
2008
9 Apr
'08
9:40 a.m.
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:43:22PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Please don't add the "tab-width: 4" specifier. Specifying a tab-width at all in a new file with "indent-tabs-mode: nil" is a contradiction. The latter says there should be no TABs, yet the former says "when there are, give them width 4." Coding style guidelines are universal in their recommendations to stick with 8-byte TAB stops, independent of whether you actually use TAB or spaces.
Agreed, good idea. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v