i did not want to add to this thread because it seems to be going nowhere, but it
seems necessary to point out that it is only common sense and courtesy to other
programmers to use CONSISTENT spacing.
be that 4 spaces, 8 spaces, 2 spaces, 1 tab or whatever, choose your indentation and
stick with it! -- and above all else, do not mix tabs and spaces!
it is foolish to assume that one editor will treat tabs the same as another .. even
the same editor on a different machine may treat tabs entirely different; everyone
likes to have their tabs set to their own special widths and forcing them to change it
to match yours is a good way to annoy people. (as this thread so plainly shows)
-s.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Fletcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23. August 2000 06:00
> To: 'Joe Rhett'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
>
> FWIW, I agree. I use the rather wonderful TextPad when in
> Windows which give
> me the option to indent things on a per-doctype basis - I'm
> no expert on
> Unix editors in general but I'm pretty sure that they can do
> similar stuff
> too.
>
> I'm personally used to seeing things indented by 8*X columns,
> not (as is the
> case with some of the opensrs code) 8 and then 4 spaces.
>
> --
> Steven Fletcher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > No... tab settings are specific to the editor. In the file,
> > it's just a tab.
> > 1 character. How it displays a preference of the user.
>
>
