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 10692 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2021 21:32:19 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 6 Mar 2021 21:32:19 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6C0A39CAA6; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 07:32:18 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 234629CA6D; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 07:32:03 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 452599CA6D; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 07:32:01 +1000 (AEST) Received: from nsstlmta01p.bpe.bigpond.com (nsstlmta01p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CA2B9CA6B for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 07:32:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.24.4]) by nsstlfep01p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20210306213158.DIOR8688.nsstlfep01p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:31:58 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduledruddtkedgudegvdcutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvffttedpqfgfvfenuceurghilhhouhhtmecugedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucggtffrrghtthgvrhhnpeekieetjeeuuefhfeeguedvudeifeevudfgvedtffekhfffjeekhfdutdetheethfenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhephhgvlhhopegrnhgvuhhrihhnrdhhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrghdpihhnvghtpeduuddtrddugedurdduleefrddvfeefpdhmrghilhhfrhhomhepoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqedprhgtphhtthhopeeothhuhhhssehtuhhhshdrohhrgheq X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (5.8.420) id 5FE6CD4113DC1A7D for tuhs@tuhs.org; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:31:58 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 126LVvj8021394 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:31:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id 126LVvZH021391 for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:31:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2021 08:31:57 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <25705.1614938294@hop.toad.com> Message-ID: References: <202103041831.124IVZTj018003@freefriends.org> <604133A6.8070101@gmail.com> <25705.1614938294@hop.toad.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" (Straying into COFF territory here) On Fri, 5 Mar 2021, John Gilmore wrote: > The one that got me was make(1). Being used to text editors that used > "tab" as a command rather than a literal character, I proposed a fix > early on at Sun that would allow leading spaces as well as tabs in > Makefiles. (I think this was in the Unisoft Unix days, pre-BSD.) Bill > Shannon actually put it into their source tree. But in a few days or > weeks, he took it back out, because he realized that Makefiles built on > Suns using leading spaces wouldn't work anywhere else. I loathe make's distinguishment between tabs and spaces; they look the same on the screen, and last I looked computers are supposed to serve humans and not the other way around. -- Dave