svn commit: r233052 - head/share/mk

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 21/03/2012, at 11:18, Mark Linimon wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to see us pick a "recommended way for new code",
> whether it's one or two spaces, whatever.  (8 spaces seems too much.)

2 space indents are fine IMO, but they are spaces.

A tab character should be viewed as 8 spaces wide, but that doesn't force you to have 8 space wide indents.

If you change tab width then you need to teach each editor and viewer that could possibly read your file what that width is, which is basically an impossible task.

Yes using just spaces, or coalescing 8 spaces into a tab uses more disk space than just tabs, but that amounts to sweet FA these days.

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