[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] Removing all trailing whitespace

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:50 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > (The difference is that the former uses tabs as indention levels and
> > > spaces for character-level alignment, while the latter mixes tabs and
> > > spaces for character-level alignment assuming a tab is 8 spaces. The
> > > former is very good style while the latter is an abomination!)

Tabs are 8 spaces (or more precisely from the current position until the
next tab stop which occurs every 8 spaces). Using tabs when you mean
something else is not "good style".
 
> > It's surely a scenario that breaks when using different tab widths, but
> > I'd say it's just something that would have worked well if there had
> > only been spaces in the first place ;-p
> 
> Spaces only DO NOT WORK WELL because it's very difficult to count
> them, add/delete whole indention levels, etc. without a special
> editor.

An editor that supports indentation is hardly "special".

> Tabs just plain work.

Using 8 spaces per indentation level is too much. Using a tab per
indentation level when you don't mean 8 spaces, and consequently abusing
tabs for different nonstandard things in different files, does not
"plain work".