From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-05-17T18:05:48+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:36262] Re: Whitespace conventions?


On May 16, 2011, at 23:54 , NARUSE, Yui wrote:

> 2011/5/17 Steve Klabnik <steve@steveklabnik.com>:
>> So, while working on some documentation, I've noticed that there's a lot of
>> mismatched spaces and tabs in the standard library. Is there a real
>> convention for this? Would a patch that converts everything to two spaces
>> rather than tabs, and removes white spaces at the ends of lines be accepted?
>> I'd imagine that being consistent is better than a patchwork of indentation.
> 
> If you use Emacs or Vim, I wrote a guide:
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/DeveloperHowto#coding-style

I am disappointed that we can't just switch entirely to spaces. It seems so antiquated.

That said, your URL suggests you wouldn't mind a sweeping commit for all the ruby code with tabs left. Would that be OK for Steve or me to do?