On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Kay Sievers <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Alessandro Delgado
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I like tabs better.
>>
>> Though the question should answer itself looking at the involving
>> environment codebase. Consistency is what matters.
>
> Tabs would make sense if we would use them strictly for indentation
> and never for any kind of alignment. Then people could switch to any
> number of tab width, and all would still look fine. That actually
> would be a nice feature in theory.
>
> But that's really not what people, or the "kernel-style" do with tabs,
> they mix everything, it works only with 8 spaces tabs, or stuff gets
> garbled when displayed. Hence tabs are a broken idea, have zero
> benefit, they just needlessly complicate things and look ugly. We
> don't want them anymore. :)

I'll do a patch myself to convert it - I'll submit it later today.

Auke
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