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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
To: sander@humilis.net, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: kernel guide to space
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:52:04 +0300
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On Monday 11 July 2005 18:34, Sander wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote (ao):
> > 	Use tabs, not spaces, for indentation. Tabs should be 8
> > 	characters wide.
> 
> A tab is a tab. The editor/viewer can be configured to show 2, 3, 4, 8,
> any amount of characters, right?

text with 8-char tabs:

struct s {
        int n;          /* comment */
        unsigned int u; /* comment */
};

Same text viewed with tabs set to 4-char width:

struct s {
    int n;      /* comment */
    unsigned int u; /* comment */
};

Comments are not aligned anymore
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vda