On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:03:51PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:

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>> This might matter if I'm comparing non-diff code to diff code. But in a
>> diff, _everything_ is indented by exactly one space, so it all lines up.
>> Is there something I'm missing?
>
> if the code uses a tab and the patch uses 8 spaces the two will not line up 
> in the diff becouse in the diff output the tab is 'only 7 spaces;
>
> useing one or the other isn't the problem, it's the mixing of the two.

Yes, obviously. The people who advocate mixing really _are_ objectively
wrong. But I was talking about all-spaces versus all-tabs.

-Peff
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