[bug #14615] Coding rules

[Eric Blake]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #14615 (project findutils):

The GNU Coding Standards,
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting,  specify how
many columns in each open brace must appear (2 column indent for every
indentation, and braces are indented on the next line, leading to the typical
4 column increase between levels of braces).  Beyond that, it is silent
whether a program must use spaces or tab characters, as long as it is
consistent.  findutils is consistent in that \t is always treated as 8
columns, in part inspired by the GNU emacs c-code-mode, as well as GNU
indent, which both clean up whitespace (on save, 8 consecutive leading spaces
are turned into a tab) in this manner to reduce the size of files. If your
editor cannot properly be configured to treat tab characters as eight
columns, then I would argue it is a bug in your editor, and not in
findutils.


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