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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:10:09PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> 
> FWIW that way will show the parameters unaligned to anyone using a
> different tab length. There is one way to align such lines properly:

As Randy said, the One True Tab Stop Length is 8.  I don't think
that's going to change anytime soon.  You might as well complain that
things don't look right if you like to use a font with variable width
characters...

					- Ted
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