On Feb 27 2008 16:11, SL Baur wrote:
quoted text
>On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote:
>
>>  Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the
>>  indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)?
>
>Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly.  8 spaces and a
>single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing
>the text in a variable width font.

By the way, neither tab nor bunch-a'-spaces makes alignment look good.
Try:

	/* fails when !monospace || tab != 8 */
	fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING
		"Opening quotes should be right after (");

	/* fails if !monospace */
	fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING
	        "Opening quotes should be right after (");

hm... :-/
--
unsubscribe notice
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/