On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200
Pacho Ramos <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this
> rule set in devmanual:
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
> 
> It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from?
> Why 8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8
> spaces equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS
> reports in gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4. 

Hysterical raisins. Unfortunately drobbins mandated it that way early
on, because he didn't use a proper text editor.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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