It's apparent from Michelle's recent travails (and I think some problems Stephen had too) that a common cause of confusion is the fact that we freely mix spaces and tabs in our source files, with tab stops at 8 spaces even though we indent to only 4 spaces per indentation level.
Is there any good reason why we shouldn't change to requiring that only spaces be used for indentation? It's easy enough to tell Emacs only to use spaces for indentation in the code itself, with a cc-mode metacomment /* -*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */ which we could add to all files. How would other editors best handle this? Does vi like to insert tabs too? What's the easiest way to untabify all the existing files? Is there any way to do this on commit, at the SourceForge side? Chris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
