On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:55:00AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 08/21/2009 10:46 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>> On 08/21/2009 09:21 AM, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>> Just to be clear, the proposal wasn't to eliminate tabs from specs, >>>> although that was proposed later in the thread. The proposal was to >>>> standardize a reasonable tab width. >>> >>> Define reasonable tab with. >>> >>> I guess you mean 8, but, whether you like it or not, there is no >>> "standardized tab width". >>> >>> Conversely, there are huge user groups, who "standardized" to other tab >>> widths, e.g. >>> >>> * Some BSDs systematically use a tab width of 4 everywhere. >>> * Some vi users typically user a tab width of 3 (I am not using vi, so >>> no idea where this originates from). >>> * Many users apply a tab width of 2. >>> * There are editors, which seem to guess on "best tab expansions". >>> ... >> >> These projects have standardized their tab widths. Why shouldn't Fedora? > > Why should it? Because some editors are unable to grok tabs in usable > ways and because some newbies are unable to cope with it? So, if it is proven that there is no sane standardization for tab widths and users/editors are unable to cope with the various tab widths, Fedora shouldn't mandate a tab width etc. then that's more of an argment to make away with tabs for good. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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