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On 05/24/2012 05:19 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * demerphq<demerphq@gmail.com> [2012-05-24T11:18:57] >> But I recommend that you do this as one big patch and NOT on a per file >> basis. >> >> Otherwise people will have to use -w on pretty well every diff. If we >> do it as a one off then the -w is needed only for that diff. > > The proposal was **NOT** to re-indent every file. > > It was to update the editor hints. > > This means that when a line is changed anyway, its whitespace may change. > > I am not suggesting someone go through and %s/\t/ /g every .c file and > neither, as far as I can see, is Karl. Also (at least in the editors I use, > but maybe others are weirder) changing the hints won't cause the next save to > re-indent the file. > > In other words, we are updating our preference to be for expanded tabs, and > that is all. > Exactly. There would be no differences except on lines that are going to be marked as changed for other reasons. If a line was last changed in 1999, it would retain whatever its whitespace was at that time.Thread Previous | Thread Next