From: "Greg A. Woods" <[email protected]> --- docs/developers.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/developers.txt b/docs/developers.txt index f26dd17..38708d7 100644 --- a/docs/developers.txt +++ b/docs/developers.txt @@ -171,6 +171,11 @@ without inflicting much pain on other developers. If you use a space, then you've fixed the spacing in stone and have really annoyed half of the people out there. +Note that tabs apply only to *indenting*. Alignment of text after any +non-tab character has appeared on the line must be done by spaces in +order for it to remain at the same alignment when someone views tabs at +a different widths. + If you write something that uses spaces, you may get away with it in a driver that's relatively secluded. However, if I have to work on that code, expect it to get reformatted according to the above. -- 1.7.9.2 _______________________________________________ Nut-upsdev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsdev
