[darcs-devel] [issue330] guidance on hacking would be useful

[Dave Love]

"Jason Dagit" <dagit at codersbase.com> writes:

> You're right that we should probably say something about tabs, but on
> the other hand with the test suite checking for it gets found right
> away for most people :)

The test suite takes an age on my system, though, which is a
disincentive to run it.

> And also, discouraging tabs seems to be common in the Haskell
> community so I think it's assumed for many darcs contributors.
>
> If we added a HACKING file my proposal is have it point at the above
> links and add something to the FAQ that shows how to disable tabs in
> both Vim and Emacs.

Actually, I just noticed that the current version of the Emacs Haskell
mode that monnier maintains sets indent-tabs-mode to nil anyhow, but I
happened to be using another.