<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-01-06 0:34 GMT+03:00 R. Matthew Emerson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rme@clozure.com" target="_blank">rme@clozure.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:57 AM, Dmitry Igrishin <<a href="mailto:dfigrish@gmail.com">dfigrish@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I've noticed that Tabs with width 8 used in the sources of CCL. Is it<br>
> necessarily to follow this rule?<br>
<br>
> (I ask because my Emacs replaces<br>
> tabs with spaces automatically upon saving while using the tabs<br>
> instead of spaces is a rare case nowadays.)<br>
<br>
</span>In new code, it doesn't matter. If your editor automatically replaces all tabs everywhere in the file with spaces, thereby creating lots of meaningless, whitespace-only diffs that show up in svn annotate output and in other places, then I would not like that.<br></blockquote><div>There are a lot of files with extra spaces and newline chars. Wouldn't be better to</div><div>cleanup all of the sources to remove them and replace tabs with spaces outright?</div></div><br></div></div>