Do you have any examples of such tools? One might solve the problem and
finally end this over-long thread.
-Eric
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doytchin Spiridonov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Scott Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'James Wright'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> there are some tools/editors/whatever which can replace spaces
> with tabs, tabs with spaces or completely rearrange the code
> the way you want. why you don't just find something like that?
>
> i think when someone give you code away for free you shouldn't
> start telling him how to write it. :)
>
> regards,
> doytchin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'James Wright' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 12:14 AM
> Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
>
>
> >
> > hallo james,
> >
> > i do not think you fully understand the point here .. i am not asking
> > that everyone drop what they are doing and spend hours working on a
> > solution because i like to waste my time counting spaces ..
> >
> > no, quite the contrary; i do not have the time to count spaces which
> > is why i do not have time to figure out code if some parts of the code
> > are occasionally indented much further than they should be when i
> > view it on an editor with different tab settings.
> >
> > okay, maybe i am being dramatic here, but if we could all agree
> > on not mixing tabs and spaces for indenting then it should only
> > take a few minutes for the opensrs people to make their code
> > conform to this and do away with the problem permanently.
> >
> > if, for some reason, it would take them longer than this then
> > perhaps it is not worth it but i can not imagine that it should.
> >
> > p.s.
> >
> > if i did have more time to spend, then perhaps i would explain to you
> > how i got credit card processing to work !
> >
> > -s.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: James Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 23. August 2000 12:33
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> > >
> > >
> > > These guys have enough to do. I feel bad mentioning what I consider a
> > > "real" problem. They could just join and compress all the
> > > lines and let
> > > everyone figure it out.
> > >
> > > There are a lot of annoying ways to code, but I see nothing wrong with
> > > theirs. I certainly don't waste time counting tabs and
> > > spaces when I'm
> > > coding unless I have nothing else to do; and if I had the
> > > time to do that
> > > with other peoples scripts I would be out looking for a life.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Scott Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 August, 2000 10:49
> > > Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 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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