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On 02/03/2012 12:57 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> If we really want to improve the world we should jump into a time
> machine and set tabstops to 4.  Sigh.
> 

Most editors these days will happy do 4-space stops expanded to 8-space
tab characters.

I have adopted the "Linux kernel formatting with 4-space indentation"
for most of my projects these days.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.