From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262826AbVGMXny (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:43:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262471AbVGMXki (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:40:38 -0400 Received: from florence.buici.com ([206.124.142.26]:15542 "HELO florence.buici.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262829AbVGMXi4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 19:38:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:38:54 -0700 From: Marc Singer To: Lee Revell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel guide to space Message-ID: <20050713233854.GA32560@buici.com> References: <20050711145616.GA22936@mellanox.co.il> <20050711153447.GA19848@favonius> <200507120952.04279.vda@ilport.com.ua> <42D3AFA1.2090203@trash.net> <20050712235804.0b994a78.pj@sgi.com> <1121275324.4435.41.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1121275324.4435.41.camel@mindpipe> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:22:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 23:58 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Dick Johnson wrote: > > > Or just disallow tabs altogether. At Analogic we ... > > > > This is the Linux kernel, not Analogic. > > > > We use tabs for indentation. You can set the number > > of physical spaces per tab however you want in your > > editor, but it had better look good (and stay within > > 80 columns) > > I don't think there's a strict 80 column rule anymore. It's 2005... Think again. There are a lot of people who use 80 column windows so that we can see two code windows side-by-side.