linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates

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Message-ID: <ed10ee420802271611l3a09e76ej531158f167512a03@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:11:06 -0800
From:	"SL Baur" <steve@...acs.org>
To:	"Richard Knutsson" <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>
Cc:	"Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Krzysztof Halasa" <khc@...waw.pl>,
	"Guennadi Liakhovetski" <g.liakhovetski@....de>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	bhalevy.lists@...il.com,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates

On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se> wrote:

>  Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the
>  indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)?

Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly.  8 spaces and a
single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing
the text in a variable width font.

I've read all my mail in a variable width font for over a decade, at
first to watch for regressions in the XEmacs display engine, but I
continued because I liked it.  I presume I'm not the only one doing
so.

-sb
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