On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:01:00PM +0100, Hugo Ferreira wrote: > Thomas Gazagnaire wrote: >> I would prefer to not have an editor which modify completely the file I >> am working on (ie. automatically replace tab by spaces). When working >> on big project, you cannot assume that everybody use spaces-based >> editor, and you still want to minimize the diff size of your patches. >> > > That is the whole issue. If you work in a big project wherein everyone > can you use their own "tab length", maintaining consistent indentation > is difficult (if not impossible). As Romain Bardou pointed out, you > can even use the same editors with differing "tab length". Real messy.
tab has no length. projects tab-indented (not talking about alignment here), is the only consistant choice that permit everyone in this same project to use any *representation* they want for their indentation (8 spaces, 2 spaces, 4 spaces, 11 spaces, ...) without making a mess. -- Vincent _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
