[pve-devel] Tabs in source files

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Mon Aug 20 16:32:17 CEST 2012


> >> http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
> >> (one link says more than thousand words)
> >
> > Any who is that Guy? Anyways, that seems to be a single opinion.
> >
> > Linux kernel source also use tabs, so I conclude that there is a broad
> > consensus that tabs are good style.
> 
> Than it would be the best to only use tabs, not a mix of tabs and spaces.
> 
> Use (M-x) whitespace-mode in Emacs to see where indentation is done with
> spaces and where with tabs.
> 
> Use (M-x) tabify to remove space-indentation if you want to stick with tabs or
> (M-x) untabify to switch to spaces.

Feel free to sent me patches to remove any space-indentation. I always try to
remove white space errors when I detect them.

- Dietmar






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