5 Mar
2021
5 Mar
'21
3:29 a.m.
On Thursday, 4 March 2021 at 15:27:27 -0600, Will Senn wrote:
On 3/4/21 3:24 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
wrote:
FWIW, I do this in my own code too. Once you know about it, it's not
an issue. It helps to have an editor that highlights tab characters.
Greg
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FWIW, FreeBSD's style(9) man page
(https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&apropos=0&sektion=9…)
includes:
Indentation is an 8 character tab. Second level indents are four
spaces.
I've always used 8 character tabs (though in my own code I don't stick
to style(9)). As others have commented, it's the Unix standard, and
the confusion between tabs and spaces is bad enough without changing
the relationship.
Wow, mixed tabs and spaces? On purpose? That's nuts :).