Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Feb 100, Miles O'Neal wrote:
>
> [snip thought GNU style was bad but it's OK]
>
> > I still don't.  Two spaces just isn't enough.  Three
> > or four is much better. And I like space before the
> > paren only if it isn't after a function or procedure
> > name.
>
> And I firmly believe that if God had intended we format our code with
> spaces, He would have made them wider.  In my own projects, I use a
> one-tab-per-indent style. (I have no idea if my style is analagous to
> someone else's; I wrote my own .emacs files.) This drives some of my
> developers nuts, but it's my perogative, just as it's the GIMP community's
> perogative to enforce GNU style.

Quantitative studies have shown that from 2 through 6 spaces is optimal.


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