On Sunday 14 April 2013 17:22:04 Pacho Ramos 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.

add --tabs=4 to your $LESS
-mike

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