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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:52:02 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com>
Cc:        www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Tabs and spaces in www and doc
Message-ID:  <20050308085202.GC994@eddie.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <1110271173.3928.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2005.03.08 09:39:33 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:33 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2005.03.08 08:53:38 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > > Again, another thing I'm sure there's a good reason for, but why do w=
ww
> > > (and doc, I suppose) use two spaces up until you get to 8, and then u=
se
> > > a tab? Why not use tabs and set the width to two spaces? Spaces make =
it
> > > a real hassle to (re)format ;).
> >=20
> > The convention is documented in the FDP Primer, but some doc/ and most
> > www/ have a rather inconsistent style... (read: is a big mess :-) ).
>=20
> Aha.

Indeed :-) - the documentation project does document some of these
things :-).

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-
> style.html#AEN3202
>=20
> Perhaps I'll write some clean-up scripts (MUCH later ;))

Note that the current defacto policy with regards to whitespace and
similar sweeping changes is that there should be a reason to do it
(ie. it's getting in the way of real work), since there are downsides
to doing a style sweep.  I think the last thread about this which
contained more details was on doc or cvs-doc last autumn.

Just so you don't waste time on something that's not going to be
committed.

--=20
Simon L. Nielsen

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