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

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/21/2009 10:46 AM, Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> 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?

Why should it? Because some editors are unable to grok tabs in usable 
ways and because some newbies are unable to cope with it?