On Jun 15 2007 12:45, Kok, Auke wrote: >> >> Well tabs should _never_ be assumed to be 8, and in this regard, as I see it, >> CodingStyle has a bug. Tabs are there so that the user can set their width >> according to _their_ taste, simply so that both sides, >> >> from CodingStyle: >> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 >> characters. There are heretic movements that try to make >> indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin >> to trying to define the value of PI to be 3. > > again, this is about *indentation* and not about alignment > >> Linus (did he wrote that part?) and the heretics both can have their fun >> without impacting each other. If we wanted to force the user to have exactly >> 8 screen blanks, we should use spaces throughout. > > Linus was friendly enough to give us permission to use tabs. He forces tabs > for > indentation, but leaves it up to everyone else to (1) set their editor to show > tabs as 2 or 4 or whatever, and (2) use spaces for alignment. > > the bottom line here is that we encourage everyone to use tabs=8, and allow > some degree of freedom for some people to vary this *AND* have decent looking > alignment for *EVERYONE* by allowing them to use spaces for alignment.
I'll just say "+1", because that's what I meant. Blame university for mathematical pickiness: >> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 is wrong ;-) -- * Tabs _are_ 1 character (use a hex editor and see) and * Tabs _are not always displayed_ as "8 characters" [there exists a user for which \t != 8] [not me though] * Tabs _are displayed_ as _much characters as the user specifies_. (CodingStyle could need a clarification.) Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/