Re: [HACKERS] Source code format vote

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> Was "spaces instead of tabs" one of the voted-on options? That would
> make the tab issue moot, and would result in consistant appearance not
> matter what tab setting one is using.

Quite a good thought, actually.  It'd be worth checking to see if there
is any material expansion in the source's disk footprint and/or the
size of a compressed tarball after getting rid of tabs entirely.
I'd be willing to vote for this if the space penalty is not large...

			regards, tom lane