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Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code
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Patrick McCarty |
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Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code |
Date: |
Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:39:12 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 09:58:26AM -0700, Mark Polesky wrote:
>
> Also, can we list all of the possible situations where we need to
> retain tabs? Ian mentioned .make files; the last time this came up
> Patrick McCarty mentioned something about demarcating syllables in
> lyrics, which I don't think I understand. (Patrick, can you give
> an example?)
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-04/msg00080.html
This is actually an email from Dana Emery in response to me.
I don't think the lyric issue is relevant though, because IIRC
LilyPond treats a tab between two syllables as a single space.
> But even in such cases, as long as my tab-width matches the
> tab-widths in the source, tabs2spaces should be fine. Is it
> correct to say that git (or savannah) translates all tabs to 8
> spaces without exception?
The commitdiffs are sometimes off (I don't know why), but the "raw"
sources and "blobs" always show tabs converted into 8 spaces.
One thing you could do right now, without awaiting approval, is to
check for lines that have tabs *after* spaces at the beginning. These
should be converted to tabs *followed* by spaces.
-Patrick
Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code, Patrick McCarty, 2009/07/25
Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code, Ian Hulin, 2009/07/25
Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code, Werner LEMBERG, 2009/07/25
Re: tabs vs. spaces in source code, Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2009/07/27