Am Freitag, 24. Juni 2011, 15:38:21 schrieb Benjamin Peterson: > <k-ohara5a5a <at> oco.net> writes: > > The bad news is, you replaced tabs by 4 columns when we needed 8 column. > > The good news is, so far as I can see, there were no un-wanted changes > > (no cases were we needed a literal tab). > > But the GOP says "use 4 spaces per indentation level"!
Exactly. But tab != indentation level. In particular, some editors simply replace all sequences of eight spaces by one tab (that's one coding style that we want to get rid of). So, whenever you see a tab in the code, it does not mean "indent one level", but it rather means exactly eight spaces. Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
