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From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:10:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1lHwAm-0036urC@more.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d6b1eebd-4181-71b9-3042-add8f0b0a1b4@gmail.com>

At Thu, 4 Mar 2021 15:27:27 -0600, Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab
> 
> Wow, mixed tabs and spaces? On purpose? That's nuts :).

In code tabs are for indentation -- one tab per level of indentation.

In code spaces are for alignment -- e.g. to align comments at the end of
the line use spaces between the end of the code and the beginning of the
comment.

(for those of us who use emacs there's smart-tabs-mode -- it's not
perfect, but it helps get these things right the first time around,
i.e. when you don't have "go fmt")

-- 
					Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>

Kelowna, BC     +1 250 762-7675           RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>     Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-04 22:10 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
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     ` Greg A. Woods [this message]
2021-03-05  1:41 ` [TUHS] tabs vs spaces - entab, detab 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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