On Sat, 13 May 2006 13:07:46 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 May 2006, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 10 May 2006 09:27:48 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Andrew,
> > >
> > > The following two patches update the rt-mutex-design.txt document.
> > >
> > > The first one simply removes all the tabs that I had in that document.
> > > Since it's a document and not code, tabs are not really appropiate.
> >
> > I think that lots of people would not agree with that sentiment.
> > Documentation/*.txt has approximately 8800 lines with tabs in them
> > (just top-level Doc/*.txt, not sub-directories).
>
> Yeah, but I have few ascii art graphs, as well as notes and points, that
> would look funny if you don't have 8 character tabs.
OK, spaces do make sense for that IMO.
But tabs are perfectly fine in text indentations.
> But If the standand is to have tabs, then I would convert all 8
> consecutive spaces to use tabs. But the original document had a mix of
> tabs and spaces that just looked horrible on different editors. So I
> decided to use spaces since that is more consistent, in the look.
Sure, mixing is often ugly/bad.
> But if this is not the norm, I'll supply a patch, otherwise I'll let it
> be.
Who can answer that?
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~Randy
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