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    Whitespace rationalisation of entire code base. · 5d718ef6
    Simon Tatham authored
    The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
    code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
    opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
    
    So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
    a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
    about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
    for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
    time.
    
    While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
    trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
    them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
    way or the other).
        
    Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
    sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.
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    Whitespace rationalisation of entire code base.
    Simon Tatham authored
    The number of people has been steadily increasing who read our source
    code with an editor that thinks tab stops are 4 spaces apart, as
    opposed to the traditional tty-derived 8 that the PuTTY code expects.
    
    So I've been wondering for ages about just fixing it, and switching to
    a spaces-only policy throughout the code. And I recently found out
    about 'git blame -w', which should make this change not too disruptive
    for the purposes of source-control archaeology; so perhaps now is the
    time.
    
    While I'm at it, I've also taken the opportunity to remove all the
    trailing spaces from source lines (on the basis that git dislikes
    them, and is the only thing that seems to have a strong opinion one
    way or the other).
        
    Apologies to anyone downstream of this code who has complicated patch
    sets to rebase past this change. I don't intend it to be needed again.