On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Peter Miller wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:33 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote: >> pmiller has committed an .indent.pro file to the source tree that switches >> us to GNU style indenting, which is fine. Curiously, he sets --tab-size0 >> rather than giving tabs a width > 0. Why? > > Because different people tell their editor to have different tab widths, > and then fill their code with tabs. (Some editors fail to distinguish > indent steps from tab widths.) This means for them, the code is > correctly formatted, but for everyone else who has different tabs, the > indenting is wrong, and ugly wrong at that. The only way around it is > to not use tabs at all, thus --tab-size0
[snip] Thanks for the excellent clarification - we'll stick with --tab-size0. -- Asheesh. -- Q: What is the difference between a duck? A: One leg is both the same. _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
