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SubjectRe: coding style
Chris Friesen wrote:
> Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as
> 4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9
> characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who
> will see 5 characters of alignment).
>
> The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is:
>
> "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
>
> If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.

it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between
indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major confusion
with patch submitters.

I personally think that the sentence

"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"

should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.

Auke
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