Eric Blake wrote:
Beyond that, it is silent whether a program must use spaces or tab characters, as long as it is consistent. findutils is consistent in that \t is always treated as 8 columns, in part inspired by the GNU emacs c-code-mode, as well as GNU indent, which both clean up whitespace (on save, 8 consecutive leading spaces are turned into a tab) in this manner to reduce the size of files. If your editor cannot properly be configured to treat tab characters as eight columns, then I would argue it is a bug in your editor, and not in findutils.
No it's not a bug in editor, all the editors that I know can be configured to have of the tabulations of the size which one wants. With a mixture of spaces and tabulations, the code display is depend on the adjustment of the user .. it's not a good idea.
regards -- Stephane Despret _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
