Again, you are making my point for me. If you use spaces, everyone who
likes their indentation set to a different width will be annoyed.
If you use tabs, they simply change the tab setting in their editor and the
indentation will match their preference without changing the source at all.
Agreed completely on not mixing spaces and tabs.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 10:49:39AM -0700, Scott Fraser wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
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