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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:23:00 -0600
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
Cc:        Thomas Gellekum <tg@melaten.rwth-aachen.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The 3.4-STABLE sources contain 152225 trailing whitespaces :-)
Message-ID:  <20000118122300.A18846@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000118112201.A44535@rtfm.net>
References:  <200001181134.MAA45912@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> <kqpuuzy57w.fsf@cip12.melaten.rwth-aachen.de> <20000118112201.A44535@rtfm.net>

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:22:01AM -0500, a little birdie told me
that Nathan Dorfman remarked
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 12:44:19PM +0100, Thomas Gellekum wrote:
> > Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Also, don't forget all those source lines where spaces could be
> > > unexpanded into tabs.  There's an awfully lot of these, too. ;)
> > 
> > Tabs should be expanded to four spaces, as everyone knows.
> 
> Err...why? Leaving them as tabs allows anyone to use whatever tabstops
> they want (four? eight? two?).

Unless they're using pico, in which case it's hardcoded into the source
as 8-char.  Numerically (not with a central constant).  In about 8
places.

If someone wants, I can dig up my patches to pico to make it use 4-char
(necessary because a friend of mine uses it and we work on code
together), which I believe also set it to use a constant in the header
file instead of a bunch of hardcoded numbers distributed around the
source.


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)     |    fullermd@over-yonder.net
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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"


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