[systemd-devel] bootchart: tabs to spaces?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2013-01-10 12:35, Kay Sievers wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:49 AM, Alessandro Delgado
><adelgado1313 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I like tabs better.
>>
>> Though the question should answer itself looking at the involving
>> environment codebase. Consistency is what matters.
>
>Tabs would make sense if we would use them strictly for indentation
>and never for any kind of alignment. Then people could switch to any
>number of tab width, and all would still look fine. That actually
>would be a nice feature in theory.

Glad you too see the benefit of not overloading tab.

>But that's really not what people, or the "kernel-style" do with tabs,
>they mix everything, it works only with 8 spaces tabs

Since it is currently wishful thinking to expect this in the kernel,
here is your chance to "Do The Right Thing(tm)" in systemd, since it
is not subject to kernel doctrine.