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

[Jussi Lehtola]

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?
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Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org