[Fedora-packaging] Re: Strawman: standardize 8-space tab width

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 08/21/2009 09:18 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 08:58:04AM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 08/21/2009 08:52 AM, Axel Thimm wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:20:08AM -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> After seeing an argument in a review over someone using a five-space tab
>>>>> width (?!), I submit the following for flameage:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Tabs
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> how about no tabs at all. With the exception of fortran and makefiles
>>>> let's hang tabs out to die a cold, unloved death.
>>>
>>> Yes, please! Especially half-mixed specfiles are fun. Isn't there an
>>> emacs/vim mode for specfiles that could be modified to automatically
>>> untabbify specfiles upon the next edit?
>>
>> ... and tab sensitive portions of a spec (such as Makefile fragments)
>> will be corrupted ...
>
> There are people embedding Makefile fragments into specfiles?
I don't have an example at hand.

> How many
> specfiles are there this way and how many packagers do we have to
> brainwash to not do that? :)

There is "brainwashed" in appending/cat'ing tab-sensitive 
Makefile-/Fortran/sh/text etc. fragments in rpm specs.