Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files

[Pete Forman]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

 > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>  The Emacs source should generally follow the GNU Coding Standards
>>  <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/>.
>
 > Where does it say whether to use tabs or spaces? (I never seem to find
 > that section.)

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Errors.html#Errors

That is talking about compiler messages and column numbers.  Working
backwards, that implies that source files may contain hard tabs, which
are size 8.  I did not see anything which says which says whether hard
tabs _should_ be used or not.
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