On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:02:44PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote: > Can you explain that value? It's just that 1) I see vast acres and acres of > code where the tabstop size is two spaces 2) the coding standard doesn't seem > to /demand/ a specific tab size and 3) if we use 8-space TABs with the kind of > depths of nesting the gcc code often contains we're going to exceed the > 80-column line length limit just on the leading indentation alone pretty > often....
GCC indents with tabs replacing eight leading spaces but an indentation depth of two spaces. I don't know where your acres and acres are, but they aren't in most GNU software. This is, unsurprisingly, how emacs behaves. Personally I think that regardless of your indentation preferences, using anything besides eight column tab stops for \t is silly; that's what "cat" is going to use. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery
