linux-kernel - Re: emacs and "linux" coding style

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Message-ID: <20100718092148.GD4684@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:21:48 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis@....net>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Nicolaescu <dann@....org>
Subject: Re: emacs and "linux" coding style

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:10:09PM +0300, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> 
> FWIW that way will show the parameters unaligned to anyone using a
> different tab length. There is one way to align such lines properly:

As Randy said, the One True Tab Stop Length is 8.  I don't think
that's going to change anytime soon.  You might as well complain that
things don't look right if you like to use a font with variable width
characters...

					- Ted
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