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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:57:54 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20010403165754.A64735@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20010403073027.C23112@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 07:30:27AM -0700
References:  <20010402211043.A84692@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010403045455.0A3A93E09@bazooka.unixfreak.org> <20010403073027.C23112@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue 2001-04-03 (07:30), David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:54:54PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote:
> > > Agreed.  Would someone please pick and convention and publish it??
> > > I never know what to do when I add to our docs.
> > 
> > AFAIK, the convention is that you use what the rest (or majority) of
> > the file you're editing uses.
> 
> In many of the doc files, it is about 50/50.  So which to go with?

Tabs.  It's also what the example vim settings, and the default emacs
settings, do.  Of course, the files don't all necessarily represent
that.  However, people wanting to do wholesale changes should at least
talk to the doc people before deciding on their own.

(FWIW, I seem to recall the tabs thing being accepted, after I proposed
it.  I'll try to remember to codify it later, when I have more than
seconds between meetings and connectivity problems.)

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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