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I find 2 space indenting difficult to read. I'm sure that I'm
misunderstanding something so take my reply with a grain of salt.
On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:28 AM, David Jencks wrote:
On Mar 13, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Jason Dillon wrote:
-1. I don't think there is any value in making the indent for xml
or any other files different than the normal indent for all other
files.
Let me give a couple of examples where the 4-space indent causes a
lot of pain and will continue to:
- in genesis geronimo-skin we have a site.vm file that is a slightly
modified copy of the default .vm file from doxia-sitetools. Trying
to update it or compare it with different indents is quite an
experience.
I'm not terribly familiar w/ site generation. I was under the
impression that we leave cookies by the wiki and elves make it. :)
Could we not just reformat the site.vm file to have 4 space indents?
- maven archetypes pop out xml with 2 space indenting, and maven xml
has 2 space indenting. Re-indenting our stuff any time you run an
archetype or borrow some configuration from maven is a nuisance that
frequently is ignored and again the spacing difference makes
comparison quite difficult.
For those of us sensible enough to use IntelliJ, alt-cmd-L makes our
world tidy. Maybe we could get the archetype generator to take the
number of spaces for an indent as a configuration parameter?
Do you have an editor that can't deal with different indents for
different file types?
thanks
david jencks
--jason
On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:34 AM, David Jencks wrote:
IIUC we have a coding standard of a 4 space indent for all files
(documented at http://cwiki.apache.org/GMOxDEV/coding-standards.html)
. This can make working with maven difficult because its files
and xml output generatiion use 2 space indent for xml and .vm files.
I think we could make life a lot easier when using maven tooling
to use a 2 space indent for xml and .vm and possibly other files.
At least with IDEA its easy to have different indents for java and
xml files.
Comments?
thanks
david jencks
