On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:16 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote: > On 10/12/09 10:57, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > > <snip> > > > > I still find that indenting quite cumbersome, emacs has automatic > > indent-on-tab support and doing anything custom is extra-painful, since > > there are some circumstances where emacs thinks it's ok to reindent some > > line (pressing ';' at the end of the line for example), I generally like > > the glib/gtk+ approach (no tabs), since alignment will obviously be > > correct, and it's easy for current editors to do that. > > That's a good point. Actually, I spoke to Tim Janik about this and how > it works for GTK+ and also Mitch Natterer for how they doing things on > GIMP (which has a very clean code base) and they both recommend spaces > exclusively. This way: > > - the alignments are always correct according to the coding style > - diffs don't look weird because of the initial \t > > I am definitely convinced after talking to Tim and Mitch that we should > use purely spaces. What do others think?
No thanks. It would also introduce a complete diff, instead of just a big diff. I think it's insane to so drastically change things. I also find all-spaces to be more work (I used it for the coding on tumbler, among other things, and it was far from being fun to keep the code-flow correct. Compared to tabs for indentation at least). I think not only should code be cute to look at, it should also be fun and fast to write. All-spaces isn't fun, and certainly isn't fast to write. It's rather pedantic, and more of an ideology for the all-spaces fanbase than a pragmatic something that really works. -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
