my $.02... I like 4 spaces, but maybe that's just because Adam insisted upon in at the beginning of time and I've just gotten used to it. Besides whitespace is nice, not wasteful -- ask any designer you know.
I'm also for 80col -- I like having room for two pages side by side on my wide screen. On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:09 AM, Daniel Salama wrote: > I use Emacs to develop Laszlo apps and really like the automatic > indentation I get when using nxml mode. I like the fact that line > breaks are aligned after the tag name so all beginning attributes are > aligned and that's usually after the 2nd column since tag names are > themselves longer than 2 columns. > > I think 4 spaces is wasteful. I like 2 spaces. I also would like to > limit page width to, at most, 80 cols. I don't care about the 1280. > There is still a very large hacker community that sticks to the 80 > cols because of compatibility across systems and editors. > > Just my 2 cents :) > > - Daniel > > On Jul 25, 2006, at 1:50 PM, P T Withington wrote: > >> Scott, please explain yourself. 4 seems wasteful. >> >> Long lines are considered harmful, no matter how wide your average >> screen. Have you read the Times lately? >> >> On 2006-07-25, at 13:36 EDT, Benjamin Shine wrote: >> >>> >>> 4! 4! 4! >>> Which I only say after having Scott slap me around repeatedly for >>> doing it wrong. >>> I used to be into 3, myself. >>> While we're at it, DARE WE come up with a line length recommended >>> limit? Pablo uses >>> 80 and maybe you hardcore oldskoolers do, but please, have you seen >>> the size of the standard screen lately? Show me a coder who doesn't >>> have at least 1280 across and I'll show you... um. >>> >>> On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:05 AM, P T Withington wrote: >>> >>>> After the 'grand class conversion', Phil and I plan to re-indent >>>> the >>>> LFC sources. [Right now Phil is making the conversion trying to >>>> minimize the whitespace changes to make it easy to review. Once we >>>> have tested and verified that it all works, we plan to re-indent.] >>>> >>>> Looking over the LFC sources, we have some code that is indented >>>> with >>>> 4 spaces and some with 2. Do we care? My personal preference is 2 >>>> -- it's enough to be visually distinct without being wasteful. >>>> But most of the sources (and apparently most editors) default to >>>> 4. We >>>> have a change to make things uniform. >>>> >>>> Vote your choice today! >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Laszlo-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev >>> >>> benjamin shine >>> software engineer >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Laszlo-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev > > _______________________________________________ > Laszlo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev _______________________________________________ Laszlo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-dev
