On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 12:45:23 AM UTC+1, David Riley wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2020, at 8:46 AM, Manlio Perillo <manlio...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Yes. > > > > In fact I wrote that alignment should be done by the editor, not gofmt. > > In this scenario, the editor needs to understand Go formatting and apply > special formatting to tabs within struct fields? I strongly discourage > this. > > It will also make structs look TERRIBLE when viewed as plain text (witness > the large corpus of C code which is only legible when viewed at a specific > tab width because their authors used this approach). > > Go's current hard-tab predilection works currently because tabs are always > starting at a constant left offset (0) from the start of line; this is not > the case in struct fields, variable declarations, etc. > > > Please don't do this. Or make it an opt-in. This is not a good change to > force on users by default. > > You are right, thanks. I guess the only possible solution is for gofmt to not align the fields, using only one space character between field name and field type.
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