Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why hinder a developer who prefer > 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width?
I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. > By only using tabs as indents, and > changing the CodeStyle to be something like "maximum 80 > characters-wide lines, with a tab-setting of 8 spaces", This changes nothing. > that is > possible + easier to write code-checkers [2]. I doubt it. > Or are we really that concerned about the disk-space? ;) Unpacked sources will be much bigger with not tabs, sure. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/