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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