On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:20:50PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> The answer is *also* not "tabs are just for initial code 
> indents", because not only will most sane editors never even show the 
> difference, it's simply not how people work. So such a rule about 
> invisible things doesn't work.
It is insane to *require* diciplined people to use tabs for more than
code indents.
If you insist on using tabs all over the place - fine with me.
But do not frown upon me and other diciplined people becasue we use
spaces to make sure our arguments to a function call is properly
aligned in a tab=10,tab=8,tab=2 environment.

The arguments "tabs are always 8 spaces properly aligned" is just
to reach the lowest common denominator around developers.
And frankly there are some that do better than that.

The root casue are the stupid editors that does not make it
easy to be diciplined and thats where the errors come from
and all the stupid rules like the above.

	Sam
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