Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Mike Hommey <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:36:05 +0200

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jari Aalto wrote:
> 
> > * Tue 2007-10-16 Michael Witten <mfwitten AT MIT.EDU>
> > >
> > > However, 8 spaces per tab is a lot of wasted
> > > information to be bandying about.
> > 
> > Spaces are guaranteed to interpreted correctly in all environments. TABs
> > are the source of too many problems.
> 
> No.
> 
> Tabs are 8 spaces wide. Live with it. It's the only sane solution.

Actually, part of the mess with tabs is due to the fact they're not
exactly 8 spaces wide, but any width that ends at a multiple of 8
characters from the start of the line. So 0 <= n < 8 spaces and a tab
is still 8 spaces.

Anyways, it's maybe just simpler to run indent before sending patches.

Mike