From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:24:59 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210304212459.GA6303@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dc90e590-96c5-15a7-42ba-2c7964ac8461@gmail.com>
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On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 10:52:30 -0600, Will Senn wrote:
> OK. So, I've been trying to decide (for the last time, I swear) whether
> to use tabs or spaces in my code... I did a quick pulse-check on the
> state of argument and it appears to be alive and well in 2021.
FWIW, FreeBSD's style(9) man page
(https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0&sektion=9&manpath=FreeBSD+12.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html)
includes:
Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four
spaces.
I've always used 8 character tabs (though in my own code I don't stick
to style(9)). As others have commented, it's the Unix standard, and
the confusion between tabs and spaces is bad enough without changing
the relationship.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-04 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-04 16:52 Will Senn
2021-03-04 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-04 18:31 ` arnold
2021-03-04 19:23 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-03-04 19:37 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-04 21:20 ` Robert Clausecker
2021-03-04 21:25 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 9:58 ` John Gilmore
2021-03-06 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:38 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:05 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-15 3:02 ` John Cowan
2021-03-15 18:15 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-15 21:19 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-15 23:47 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-16 3:10 ` Earl Baugh
2021-03-15 21:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 21:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-15 21:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-15 22:06 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-16 13:25 ` arnold
2021-03-17 5:10 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 21:40 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-04 18:48 ` emanuel stiebler
2021-03-05 0:44 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:09 ` George Michaelson
2021-03-05 1:21 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-05 1:29 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-04 18:33 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 21:24 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2021-03-04 21:27 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:29 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 21:42 ` Will Senn
2021-03-04 21:48 ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-04 22:08 ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-04 22:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-05 14:13 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 20:24 ` John Cowan
2021-03-05 21:51 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 23:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 0:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 23:58 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-07 0:03 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-07 0:25 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-07 9:16 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-05 9:50 ` [TUHS] tunefs -m 5% John Gilmore
2021-03-05 15:01 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-03-05 15:32 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-03-06 1:18 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 1:52 ` Warner Losh
2021-03-06 21:45 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 22:03 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-09 4:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-06 23:52 ` David Barto
2021-03-06 1:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2021-03-04 22:10 ` [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab Greg A. Woods
2021-03-05 1:41 ` alan
2021-03-05 1:55 ` alan
2021-03-05 2:06 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 17:08 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 17:19 ` Richard Salz
2021-03-05 19:39 ` Lawrence Stewart
2021-03-05 19:51 ` Dan Halbert
2021-03-08 1:52 ` Will Senn
2021-03-05 16:43 ` Scot Jenkins via TUHS
2021-03-05 22:23 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-06 20:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-03-06 21:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-03-06 21:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-06 22:01 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-05 16:44 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-05 19:29 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-03-06 23:21 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-03-05 22:50 Norman Wilson
2021-03-07 2:53 Nelson H. F. Beebe
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