On Thursday, April 15, 2010, Nathan O'Treally <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > I'm not happy with "brute-force" converting *any* tab to space(s), and
Why? Is there a single place in all sage that should use a tab in the source code? Please clarify? > it would be better to have a tool that (conditionally) does this > rather than supplying patches to lots of files converted by Emacs. The > same tool could be used just to check for "illegal" tabs. As I > understand this, these are *tabs in leading whitespace*. > > Trailing whitespace could be removed. (Currently trailing tabs are > converted to many trailing spaces.) That is another issue. It doesn't cause any trouble in python, so it doesn't concern me. Mixing spaces and tabs does cause trouble, and I think using tabs at all violates the style guidelines in our developer manual. > > I've also come across files that do not end with newline... > > Opinions? > > -Leif > > (see also <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/8680#comment:9>) > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
