On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:47:45 -0500 Nick Hughart <mek...@mekius.net>
wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Sep 2009 14:34:03 +1000
> David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:19:37 -0400 Christopher Michael
> > <cpmicha...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Nick Hughart wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 20:03:18 +0530
> > > > Noorul Islam <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Vincent
> > > >> Torri<vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
> > > >>> ok, forget about that, core devs don't care at all about
> > > >>> coding style
> > > >>>
> > > >>> thread closed
> > > >>>
> > > >> I think core developers are busy. I hope they will reply soon.
> > > >>
> > > > 
> > > > I would love this to finally be done, but I know most of the
> > > > devs just don't care.  But when we have a crazy style like we
> > > > do I think it requires a bit of explanation unless we want to
> > > > constantly format patches from people.
> > > > 
> > > > I also think that moving to a format with only spaces and no
> > > > tabs would further help.  Most editors do not do tabs+spaces
> > > > like JED (essentially how E's code got it's style).  I realize
> > > > it's easy to just keep this format, but I find myself
> > > > formatting my code more then writing it in the editor I use.
> > > > And no I'm not going to spend days trying to tweak my editor to
> > > > just code E style since I have plenty of other things to code
> > > > in my own style.
> > > >
> > > Not to start any flames or anything, but changing the code style
> > > for E would require others to tweak their editors....is their
> > > time any less important to them ?
> > 
> > indent is a perfectly adequate tool for automating that sort of
> > style stuff, so long as the official style fits within what indent
> > can do. We have indent.pro files in SVN for exactly that reason.
> 
> Unfortunately it's been said many times that the indent files in SVN
> do not actually produce the E format as it stands today and from what
> people have said, indent cannot produce the E format.  Why that is I
> cannot say and that may no longer be true or may have been false in
> the first place, I'm just saying what I've heard before.

That's why I added "so long as the official style fits within what
indent can do".  Might be time to tweak the style to fit the tool, or
maybe someone wants to tweak the tool to fit the style?

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