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Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files |
Date: |
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:40:25 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>> > When we post patches, we generally create them
>> > using `diff -c -w' AFAIK, which would seem to suggest an
>> > agnostic (or at least a loose) approach to indenting whitespace.
>>
>> Actually, you should drop the -w when you generate patches, because it
>> causes trouble for Patch (unless the -l switch to Patch is used, which
>> is easily forgotten).
> Really? I seem to recall someone mentioning here that -c -w was what was
> preferred.
I generally prefer "-u -w" when it's a patch for review.
And "-u" when it's a request to apply the patch.
Stefan
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, (continued)
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Bill Wohler, 2008/03/08
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Miles Bader, 2008/03/08
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/09
- RE: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Drew Adams, 2008/03/07
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/08
- RE: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Drew Adams, 2008/03/08
- Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files,
Stefan Monnier <=
Re: tabs v spaces in Emacs's source files, Richard Stallman, 2008/03/08