On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jürg Billeter <j...@bitron.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 15:20 -0500, Michel Salim wrote: >> All the Vala code I've seen so far use 8-space indentation, with Tabs >> not converted to spaces. Is this documented somewhere as being the >> preferred style? > > Vala itself uses tabs for indentation and spaces for line-up. Tab size > can be set to whatever you like, it doesn't matter if you use tabs > properly. > >> I'm packaging Vala Toys for gedit right now, and it uses this for its >> project generator, and when editing Vala source, any attempt to change >> the indentation gets reset to 8-space/TAB when the file is saved. >> Granted, this is probably a bug (that I'll report), but a clarification >> would be useful. > > That's a gedit 2.25 bug and unrelated to vtg, as far as I know. > I spoke too soon -- discovered that gedit's global tab setting is overriding the override set for the current file.
(and the vala-mode sets tab width to 4, so all looks good. The tutorial uses 4 spaces as well, so I must have been pulling numbers out of my head. Sorry.) -- miʃel salim • http://hircus.jaiku.com/ IUCS • msa...@cs.indiana.edu Fedora • sali...@fedoraproject.org MacPorts • hir...@macports.org _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
