Imposed indentation standards don't work

[Eric S. Raymond]

In article <WJC.88Dec27163645 at ho5cad.ho5cad.att.com>, ho5cad!wjc writes:
> Even if we can't solve where the curly braces go, world peace, and
> other hard problems, let's at least write this one off.  Indenting is
> done with tabs, right?  Not spaces, and not combos of spaces and tabs,
> right?

Well, if (you're using an editor sufficiently literal-minded that it doesn't
automatically indent to the right mix of tabs and spaces && the editor doesn't
have a re-indent-C-statement function) maybe it is, yes. On the other hand, if
you're using emacs...

Please, no flames about how not everybody uses emacs and 8-space tabs either;
situations like this are what expand(1) is for and diff(1) can be told to
ignore whitespace-only differences. All those extra spaces take up space!
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