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Re: [Bug-gnulib] no new tabs please (was: normalize leading and remove t


From: Karl Berry
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] no new tabs please (was: normalize leading and remove trailing white space from imported files)
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:22:09 -0400

    But please don't introduce tabs in files that didn't have them!

I agree with Bruno.

    How useful is it to make config.guess and config.sub differ from the
    one maintained on ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/ ?

In general, when gnulib imports files from other places, I think we
should just copy the file and not introduce "extra" changes.  We have to
change the license, but messing with whitespace, cpp indentation, and
other such cosmetic things seems unnecessary to me.  What do others
think?

    I also believe that tabs are not portable in .tex files; Karl, can you
    confirm?

It's not exactly that they're not portable, they're as portable as any
other character.  But they don't do the "right" thing, if you define
right as "move to the next tab stop defined every 8 columns".

In the case of comments and leading whitespace, that doesn't matter,
tabs don't hurt.  But I still don't like them and eradicate them when I
run across them ...

Thanks,
k




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