Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Pete Forman <address@hidden> wrote:

>  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.

Which, alas, adds no information: in absence of explicit guidelines,
it should be safe to assume that either spaces or tabs can be used...

Thanks for finding that paragraph, though.

             Juanma