[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Coding Style Guidelines

["Per I. Mathisen" <Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tony Stuckey wrote:
>       I am firmly of the opinion that tabs are the only good way to do
> indentation.  Setting the tab stops at 8 was a dumb decision made decades
> ago (5 or 6 would have been the proper values for historical accuracy).  I
> personally have vi set up to use ts=4.

I agree. Tabs are very useful, should be 4. But we'd have to make guides
on how to set pico, vi, emacs et al use that tab size.

Yours,
Per

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