From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 23246 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2021 21:29:32 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Mar 2021 21:29:32 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A7BCA9CA7B; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:29:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E3C9CA68; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:29:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7194E9CA68; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:29:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from lax.lemis.com (www.lemis.com [45.32.70.18]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1406E9CA67 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 07:29:19 +1000 (AEST) Received: from eureka.lemis.com (unknown [121.200.11.253]) by lax.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0EDB27F7C; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 21:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eureka.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 02A8F2635BE; Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:29:18 +1100 (AEDT) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 08:29:17 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Will Senn Message-ID: <20210304212917.GB6303@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20210304212459.GA6303@eureka.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: LEMIS, 29 Stones Road, Dereel, VIC, Australia Phone: +61-3-5309-0418 Mobile: +61-490-494-038. Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Subject: Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: TUHS main list Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 15:27:27 -0600, Will Senn wrote: > On 3/4/21 3:24 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> 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. > > Wow, mixed tabs and spaces? On purpose? That's nuts :). FWIW, I do this in my own code too. Once you know about it, it's not an issue. It helps to have an editor that highlights tab characters. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAmBBUS0ACgkQIubykFB6QiPLgQCffWDnUMubeurmFVOcQiuOFkxn WYgAoKpcXcIDcj7gK0ucnJlP6A4yRK0p =U4Lh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--