> What do you think ? What do other people think ? If people want a > configuration parameter, I'll give them one. As Stuart said in another > thread: speak now or ... :)
While tabs vs. spaces in the general sense can be debated, one of the nice things about Lisp is that *everyone* (more or less) really does use the same indentation style (spaces and almost always agree on the number of them). In addition, alignment with a part of a previous expression tends to be very common Lisp (more so, I think, than in many languages) which means that hopping in one level of indentation is a fairly un-common operation and mostly relegated to bodies whereby the automatic indentation would presumably do the right thing anyway. Giving this hugely pervasive convention, it seems sensible to me for the default to be auto-indent. I also suspect, without having any evidence, that newcomers that feel uncomfortable with Lisp will probably be significantly helped by automatic indentation on tab. That said, I am clearly biased coming from using emacs as my primary text editor (and the tab key being high up on the list of annoyances when trying to get used to Eclipse or IntelliJ), and coming from being used to simply hitting C-q tab in cases where I really do want a tab. Perhaps it is much more difficult to insert a real tab on the few occasions where you want it in eclipse/ccw (I don't know; I haven't used it enough yet to know)? And yet another disclaimer: While I've used CCW a bit, I haven't used it enough to have a good feel for it. So my input above comes mostly from a general perspective. -- / Peter Schuller -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
