>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Adrian Schollmeyer wrote: >> Then again, it doesn't even say that they represent 4 spaces.
> Is that really important? I don't think we should force a tab width > for the user if we don't have a good reason to do so. The good thing > about tabs is that the user can set the tab width to their liking. If > we enforce a tab width, that would essentially undermine that one big > advantage over spaces. We don't force anything, and users can configure whatever tab width they want. This is a about having a reasonable *default* value for ebuilds. Traditionally our TABs are four positions wide (which also plays a role when it comes to other style guidelines like "try to keep lines no wider than 80 positions"). Besides, ebuild-mode has used a default tab-width of 4 since 2006, and I haven't heard a single complaint about it. Ulrich
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