Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Feb 27 2008 00:51, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Now, I think, I am not the only one using emacs. Until now the "linux" 
>> C-style fitted perfectly with the CodingStyle, now it no longer will. 
>> Namely, emacs puts as many tabs to indent the continuation line as fit 
>> (i.e., at tab width = 8 spaces it's just (extra indent / 8) tabs plus 
>> (extra indent % 8) spaces. Is there a way to make emacs behave compatibly 
>> to this proposal? If not, I would not like to have to re-indent every such 
>> line manually or have my patches rejected because of this.
>
>Oh, I'm sure nobody will reject patches because of this now. It would
>mean no patches are accepted.

Correct. Just did not want to even encourage any newcomers to use
tabs when spacing is needed. Though, some editors unfortunately do
just that - replacing 8 spaces by tabs on a new line when autoindent
is on, like mcedit :-(
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