Jim Meyering wrote:
Tabs in code are indeed evil. Different users have different tab stops.
I would convert *all* tabs to spaces and add to each file:
/* -*- tab-width:8; intent-tabs-mode:nil; -*- */
/* ex: set tabstop=8 expandtab: */
For the record, I think that such comments should be made unnecessary.
I.e., maintain coding standards with enough automated infrastructure
that that type of crutch is not required. See the guidelines in coreutils'
HACKING file. Speaking of which, grep's HACKING needs a refresher.
Interesting. Looking at the coreutils-8.22 tarball, there is no HACKING
file. It's not in the coreutils-8.17 tarball either. It is in the git
tree though.
-- Bruce
