[Vortex] Tab widths [was: How to submit patches?]

Francis Brosnan Blazquez francis at aspl.es
Thu Apr 24 11:46:17 CEST 2008


Hi Jens,

> > (2) Is the tab character assumed to be 4 or 8 spaces? I think I've  
> > seen places where each appears to be used.
> 
> Francis replied (I've accidentally deleted his email, so I can't  
> quote) that tabs should be consistently 8 spaces wide.
> 
> However, most/all the tabs in the 1.0 source tree are 4 characters  
> wide. Should this be fixed, or did you mean to say 4 instead of 8,  
> Francis?

I've found some lines are indented by single tabs or 8 spaces. In any
case the indentation is 8 spaces wide; maybe your editor is interpreting
every single tab as 4 spaces?

Cheers!

> —Jens
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Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis at aspl.es>
Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.




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