Tabs and spaces in www and doc

Devon H. O'Dell dodell at sitetronics.com
Tue Mar 8 08:39:40 GMT 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:33 +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2005.03.08 08:53:38 +0100, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> > Again, another thing I'm sure there's a good reason for, but why do www
> > (and doc, I suppose) use two spaces up until you get to 8, and then use
> > a tab? Why not use tabs and set the width to two spaces? Spaces make it
> > a real hassle to (re)format ;).
> 
> The convention is documented in the FDP Primer, but some doc/ and most
> www/ have a rather inconsistent style... (read: is a big mess :-) ).
> 

Aha.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/writing-
style.html#AEN3202

Perhaps I'll write some clean-up scripts (MUCH later ;))

--Devon



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