David P Grove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For what it's worth, we (Jikes RVM) have been getting complaints from > users who are trying to browse Jikes RVM source code using Eclipse that it > is somewhat annoying to have tabs in the source code. If a tab represents > 8 spaces, but your spaces per indentation level is something else (eg 2 or > 4) then the IDE gets unhappy and starts doing wierd stuff. It also > creates a minor annoyance when you get patches from users that created > them in an ide where spaces per tab is often set equal to indent level. > > We've decided to give up on tabs in all of Jikes RVM's source code as the > slight increase in file size doesn't seem to be worth the annoyance.
I've always thought that using tabs for formatting in source code was a Bad Thing. In fact, replacing tabs with spaces seems to be conventional wisdom most of the places I've worked. So count me as a supporter of nuking tabs. -- Aaron M. Renn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/ _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
