From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: On Tabs and Spaces Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:32:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <634393B0-734A-4884-93E3-42F7D3CB157F@mit.edu> <471476B7.5050105@users.sourceforge.net> <8c5c35580710160204s5a4f9fb3j68c0a86c4d080cb7@mail.gmail.com> <47148F72.1090602@users.sourceforge.net> <1192548367.3821.4.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> <3awb7zw6.fsf@blue.sea.net> <20071016193605.GA829@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mike Hommey , Jari Aalto , git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 16 22:33:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iht6t-0008AG-Fs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:33:51 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965153AbXJPUdH (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:33:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965585AbXJPUdG (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:33:06 -0400 Received: from imag.imag.fr ([129.88.30.1]:42330 "EHLO imag.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965337AbXJPUdE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:33:04 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by imag.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9GKWQIs011533 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:32:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1Iht5W-0005wB-8T; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:32:26 +0200 Received: from moy by bauges.imag.fr with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Iht5W-0008Gz-5P; Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:32:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue\, 16 Oct 2007 12\:47\:17 -0700 \(PDT\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (imag.imag.fr [129.88.30.1]); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:32:26 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact IMAG DMI for more information X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: moy@imag.fr Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: >> >> Actually, part of the mess with tabs is due to the fact they're not >> exactly 8 spaces wide, but any width that ends at a multiple of 8 >> characters from the start of the line. So 0 <= n < 8 spaces and a tab >> is still 8 spaces. > > Umm.. That's the definition of "tab width". > > The tab width is 8. Not "0 < n <= 8". Not "depends on where you are". The > tab width is 8. Read better before replying, and I'm sure you'll agree with Mike ... -- Matthieu