Re: Tabs or Spaces

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tabs or Spaces
Date: 2007-01-05 00:41:19
Message-ID: 20070105004119.GD3792@alvh.no-ip.org
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > > Minor request for clarification:
> > > > I read in the Developer's FAQ that tabs should be interpreted as 4
> > > > spaces. ...and also that pgindent replaces tabs as spaces.
> > >
> > > No, it does the opposite (or I would hope so anyway).
> >
> > Sorry, the mistake was in a reference to entab. It now reads:
> >
> > entab converts spaces to tabs, used by pgindent
>
> S'OK, just thought it was funny I'd been doing it backwards all this
> time: Actively been replacing tabs with spaces. :-)

That explains why your patches always seemed to be so weird to me
spacing-wise :-)

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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