[bind10-dev] tabs are now prohibited?

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:48:54 +0000,
Evan Hunt <each at isc.org> wrote:

> > Is that an intentional change?  I remember we discussed style change
> > from 8-tab to 4-tab, but I'm afraid it's too restrictive to completely
> > prohibit tab characters even with 4-tab.
> 
> We discussed this at the meeting last week--the plan was to change to
> 4-space indentation, using spaces only, not tabs.

Hmm, I don't remember the using-space-only part of the discussion, and
while I think I still prefer using tabs where applicable I guess it's
a mere preference (I cannot come up with any practical reason for
tabs).  I was concerned about emacs inserting tabs automatically for 8
spaces, but I found I can disable it by setting indent-tabs-mode to
nil (why did I even think I couldn't with Emacs?).  So, if others
prefer not using tabs, I'm okay with that policy.

> (I do think it would be better if it were possible to override the
> restriction when you have a good reason to, though.  Does the precommit
> script have any such capability?)

Without modifying the script?  From a quick look at the source code I
suspect it's not possible.

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JINMEI, Tatuya