[Fedora-packaging] Re: Strawman: standardize 8-space tab width

[Axel Thimm]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:58:04AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>  On 08/21/2009 08:52 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:20:08AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> >> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>
> >>> After seeing an argument in a review over someone using a five-space tab
> >>> width (?!), I submit the following for flameage:
> >>>
> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Tabs
> >>>
> >>
> >> how about no tabs at all. With the exception of fortran and makefiles
> >> let's hang tabs out to die a cold, unloved death.
> >
> > Yes, please! Especially half-mixed specfiles are fun. Isn't there an
> > emacs/vim mode for specfiles that could be modified to automatically
> > untabbify specfiles upon the next edit?
>
>  ... and tab sensitive portions of a spec (such as Makefile fragments)  
>  will be corrupted ... 
There are people embedding Makefile fragments into specfiles? How many
specfiles are there this way and how many packagers do we have to
brainwash to not do that? :)
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