Re: [sage-devel] tabs in the Sage library

2010-04-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi William, On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, William Stein wrote: > That is another issue. It doesn't cause any trouble in python, so it > doesn't concern me. I have an Emacs keyboard shortcut that removes all trailing white spaces in a file. When I started out with Python programming, I wr

Re: [sage-devel] tabs in the Sage library

2010-04-15 Thread William Stein
On Thursday, April 15, 2010, Nathan O'Treally 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 >

Re: [sage-devel] tabs in the Sage library

2010-04-12 Thread Tom Boothby
> Coordinating another big tab removal patch would be difficult, but I > think that we could at least change the "sage -merge" script so that it > rejects any patch that introduces tabs. (Unless, say, some kind of > --no-really-the-tabs-are-okay command line option is specified.) Does > this seem l

[sage-devel] tabs in the Sage library

2010-04-12 Thread Dan Drake
Hello, A while back, there was a massive patch that removed all the tabs from the Sage library. Unfortunately, they have been creeping back in, and there are now quite a few files with tabs: try doing grep --perl-regexp '\t' --files-with-matches -r sage/* from SAGE_ROOT/devel/sage/. Coord