Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932280AbYB1ALW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:11:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759070AbYB1ALJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:11:09 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.180]:46732 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759068AbYB1ALH (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:11:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=FsO+GWJTyisB/UnMo9ifl4S8Ot2OagG6SEsgwqH9R2Wh+E/4gi5+jGf/MHNi+Cqr25Z9mM4o/ET3fMoIp5ifCxiIo2qEMKoDAhAAJOwkFavuWwHe521tF8cDTgcIVQMenDeL36H1dfdK+FyvMe8px1saaOXc00JOu6s3S/h+GZA= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:11:06 -0800 From: "SL Baur" To: "Richard Knutsson" Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates Cc: "Randy Dunlap" , "Krzysztof Halasa" , "Guennadi Liakhovetski" , "Jan Engelhardt" , bhalevy.lists@gmail.com, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <47C5DDE0.3040403@student.ltu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1204062430.47c488def40a4@portal.student.luth.se> <20080226135444.f83a0536.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080226213432.1388717b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <47C5DDE0.3040403@student.ltu.se> X-Google-Sender-Auth: b85c3ea5970ab5d0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 20 On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the > indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)? Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly. 8 spaces and a single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing the text in a variable width font. I've read all my mail in a variable width font for over a decade, at first to watch for regressions in the XEmacs display engine, but I continued because I liked it. I presume I'm not the only one doing so. -sb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/