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Re: [gdbserver/commit] fix whitespace.
On Monday 23 March 2009 01:12:02, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > I'm also applying these further fixes.
>
> (I can't help myself, sorry)
>
> You know, the current whitespace rule has been really bugging me
> since day one. I would be a very very happy camper if we got rid
> of tabs and just used spaces.
I suspect that the interim period between using tabs and not using
tabs would take a while, and would be a bigger mess, unless we
did wholesale conversion.
> Tabs make it hard for everything:
> hard to edit/navigate in your editor (unless you have a mode that
> makes it transparent for you?),
I can't tell if this was real question? Emacs makes it mostly
transparent.
I also use this mode to easily spot breakage:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace
> and harder to read patches
> (space display can get off because of the extra character that is
> being put on the first column of each line of the diff).
>
> Iiiiiiihhh!
>
> (nervous breakdown)
>
:-) :-)
Yeah... I can't say I love them either, but...
as long as we have them, might as well be consistent, m'kay?
--
Pedro Alves