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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu> writes:

> Complain if we find 8 spaces or more in a row as part of the initial
> whitespace on a line, and (with --whitespace=stripspace) replace such by
> a tab.
>
> Well, linux's checkpatch.pl complains about this sort of thing.

Some people program in Python, so I am afraid that this needs to
be a separate option.

Maybe it is time to redo the --whitespace options as bitmasks so
that we can say --whitespace-fix=tab,tail,lines to pick and
choose which kinds of breakage to fix?