How many avocados does a tab represent? -A
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Aaron W. Swenson <titanof...@gentoo.org>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 08:15:08AM +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > El lun, 15-04-2013 a las 07:21 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > > > On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200 > > > Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > > I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this > > > > rule set in devmanual: > > > > > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace > > > > > > > > It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from? > Why > > > > 8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8 > spaces > > > > equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS reports in > > > > gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4. > > > > > > Hmm, does that have implications on anything else but counting line > > > width? > > > > > > > Well, I was a bit surprised an ebuild I was thinking was looking in a > > way, was really shown a bit different when, for example, simply running > > less over it :/ > > > > A tab is a tab. How wide it is, is up to you. The convention is that > four spaces should be replace by a tab. You can configure tab width > for your terminal with: > > setterm -regtabs 4 > > If you want to, that is. > > -- > Mr. Aaron W. Swenson > Gentoo Linux Developer > Email : titanof...@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : 2C00 7719 4F85 FB07 A49C 0E31 5713 AA03 D1BB FDA0 > GnuPG ID : D1BBFDA0 >
