[systemd-devel] bootchart: tabs to spaces?

[Kay Sievers]

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.

But that's really not what people, or the "kernel-style" do with tabs,
they mix everything, it works only with 8 spaces tabs, or stuff gets
garbled when displayed. Hence tabs are a broken idea, have zero
benefit, they just needlessly complicate things and look ugly. We
don't want them anymore. :)

Kay