Re: Tabs vs. spaces (was: cvs commit: blah blah blah)

[Craig R. McClanahan]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Kief Morris wrote:

> Jon Stevens typed the following on 06:50 PM 4/10/2001 -0700
> >
> >Craig, does this mean you (finally) aren't using tabs anymore? :-)
> >
> 
> So, are spaces kosher? The Sun coding standards document (which is the
> official Jakarta guideline?) says either is OK, but the mixed tabs and spaces
> format I've found in the Catalina code I've mucked with is a PITA. Can I just
> set my editor to use 4 spaces for tabs and reformat files I work with
> accordingly, without spawning a jihad?
> 
> Kief
> 
> 

One more note on this, even if you are using spaces for indentation, the
indentation interval for Tomcat code should be four spaces.

Craig