usage of tab in the indentation...

[Michael Snyder]

Joel Brobecker wrote:
> 
> > For my part, I just use emacs' default formatting, which
> > pretty much relieves me of worrying about formatting, since
> > it almost always conforms to the coding standard.  And emacs
> > uses tabs.  It would be a nuisance for me to have to change.
> 
> That's fair enough. I know it would cause some of us some problems
> to switch to spaces, so wasn't really hoping for a change in policy,
> but I'm still curious as to why we used tabs and not spaces. What are
> the benefits?

There's no rule that you have to use tabs either.
Feel free to use spaces.

> In the meantime, I take it people will not yell if the indentation in a
> patch looks a bit bizarre :-)...

We're used to it.  ;-)