[Libvir] proposal: remove contradictory indentation directive

[Jim Meyering]

"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:40:13PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 02:43:22PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> > Please don't add the "tab-width: 4" specifier.
>> > Specifying a tab-width at all in a new file with "indent-tabs-mode: nil"
>> > is a contradiction.  The latter says there should be no TABs, yet
>> > the former says "when there are, give them width 4."  Coding style
>> > guidelines are universal in their recommendations to stick with 8-byte
>> > TAB stops, independent of whether you actually use TAB or spaces.
>>
>> Agreed, good idea.
>
> ACK.
>
> Could we get a make syntax-check test to look for these bogus tabs too

Of course.
These days, any time I make a global change like this,
I also make time to ensure that new violations can't sneak back in.