El lun, 15-04-2013 a las 07:21 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > 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? >
Well, I was a bit surprised an ebuild I was thinking was looking in a way, was really shown a bit different when, for example, simply running less over it :/
