Re: [Gnu-arch-users] OpenBSD madness...

[Thomas Lord]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    I hope you will use GNU style (2-space) indenting.
>
> GNU style indenting doesn't use 2-spaces actually.  It is a mixture of
> tabs and spaces.  If you have 2*8 spaces, then that is replaced with a
> tab.  If you have (2*8)+4 spaces, then this is replaced by a tab and
> four spaces.  It isn't written in the GCS, but this is what Emacs does
> by default which is basically the canonical reference.
>
>   

You're right although the real reference for GNU standards is

 http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Formatting.html#Formatting


Nevertheless, avoiding tabs is best for reasons that should now be obvious.
I'm sure there are plenty in the tla code, not least in the code I wrote
before I learned of the Emacs setting to avoid them.

-t