Re: tabs in source code

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* On 2006.06.19, in <1150754996.14892.12.camel@xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx.xx>,
*	"Martin Ebourne" <lists@xxxxxxx.xx.xx> wrote:
> 
> I've no idea where that's come from because Emacs (at least GNU Emacs)
> certainly doesn't do that by default. By default it uses tab stops at 8
> characters, the same as every other unix tool.

Perhaps "default" wasn't the best word choice to an emacs user, but
it feels right if you've shared the same hate.

It's probably from cc-mode.  Try it.  emacs bloody-emacs.c and put in
some levels of indentation, then check it out in vi or od.

It does appear that somewhere in the last 12 years they've changed it
from 4 spaces (also my recollection) to 2 spaces; hate.

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 -D.    dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx        NSIT    University of Chicago

• Martin Ebourne 23:09 on 19 Jun 2006
  • David Champion 23:16 on 19 Jun 2006
• peter (Peter da Silva) 22:55 on 23 Jun 2006

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