Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 3/31/10 03:53, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Steven Schveighoffer"<schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:op.vaefb7p3eav...@localhost.localdomain... >>> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:56:32 -0400, Walter Bright >>> <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: >>> >>>> BTW, type a file to a console window. Tabs come out as 8 characters, on >>>> Windows, Linux, and OSX. >>> >>> So do 8 spaces. This is the surest way to make code easily >>> viewable/editable anywhere. Just set the "expand tabs" option on your >>> favorite editor. >>> >>> My recommendation is to say indentations are 4 spaces and tabs should not >>> be used for indentation. >>> >> >> I've always found using spaces for indentation to make editing a real >> PITA. (Why woudn't I rather be able to move in/out one level of >> indentation with one arrow-key press instead of 4 (or so) ?) >> >> But really, I don't see why the whole issue hasn't already been made 100% >> personal style by a VCS that handles it the same way SVN handles EOLs. If >> one person has problems involving another person using a different >> indentation system, then at least one of them is doing something very >> wrong. Seriously, how is it that this is 2010, we have things like syntax >> highlighting as standard featutres in every editor that anyone ever >> actually uses...and yet the whole world of programmers still can't >> abstract away something as simple as f*cking tab sizes? Bah! > > Eclipse with descent can reformat the files to your own personal > preferences.
vote++ The descent reformatter is crazy, no matter how funky your style is the chances are pretty good you can autoformat all that pesky code written by others :) Not to mention you can use it as a tool to save time formatting yourself. I would perhaps even pay for it as a standalone utility /salestalk>