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Posted to dev@harmony.apache.org by Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <th...@gmail.com> on 2006/12/30 14:43:15 UTC
Re: [classlib] removing \t from sources
Geir Magnusson Jr. skrev den 03-10-2006 13:12:
> No matter what, tabs shouldn't be used. They make it impossible to
> portably represent the formatting.
>
Reading up on old stuff I found this, and wondered if the subversion
server could reject ascii files with tabs in it, or a script be run in
the tests that verifies that no sources contain tabs?
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Thorbjørn
Re: [classlib] removing \t from sources
Posted by "Geir Magnusson Jr." <ge...@pobox.com>.
On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
> Geir Magnusson Jr. skrev den 03-10-2006 13:12:
>> No matter what, tabs shouldn't be used. They make it impossible
>> to portably represent the formatting.
>>
> Reading up on old stuff I found this, and wondered if the
> subversion server could reject ascii files with tabs in it, or a
> script be run in the tests that verifies that no sources contain tabs?
Maybe, but it hasn't been a major problem so far. I think people
configure their editors once, and that's that.
geir