From 918d0e71abe374469dbadf4c5291e10808f6deda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 11:43:05 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] docs: mention that the source code is best viewed with a tab size of 4 --- README.GIT | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.GIT b/README.GIT index d6236636..6e233b2e 100644 --- a/README.GIT +++ b/README.GIT @@ -107,3 +107,10 @@ the license that covers nano. Then create a patch (or patches): Send that patch (or patches) to , as an attachment or with git send-email. + +To keep most lines of nano's source code within a width of 80 characters, +a tab size of four should be used. So in your nanorc file you may want +to include 'set tabsize 4', or you could use -T4 on the command line. +To make git display things as intended, you can do: + + $ git config --local core.pager "less -x4"