On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:22:04 +0200
Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> I noticed this problem now that joe was modified to comply with this
> rule set in devmanual:
> http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
> 
> It stated a tab represents 4 spaces. Where does this rule come from? Why
> 8 spaces wasn't chosen instead? I say that because looks like 8 spaces
> equivalence is used by tools like "cat", "less", even CVS reports in
> gentoo-commits show tabs as 8 spaces instead of 4. 

Hmm, does that have implications on anything else but counting line
width?

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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