From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:18:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Tabs and spaces
Message-ID: <20110421021825.GA23373@elie>
In-Reply-To: <1235e29d-6cbb-445b-9b6f-4e174c03ba8f-mfwitten@gmail.com>

Michael Witten wrote:

> You just need an editor that [...]

which many contributors don't have (or haven't configured that way).
Really.

[...]
> However, with a tabstop of 2, it looks like this:
>
>   if (foo && bar && baz &&
>       qux && quux) {
>     ...
>   } else if (quuux(quuuux, quuuuux,
>         long_expresion_comes_here(quuuuuux))) {
>     ...
>   }
>
> Notice that your `qux && quux' line (which follows the method we both like)
> remained nicely aligned, but your `long_expression_comes_here' line has
> moved back so much that it doesn't even satisfy the `right margin' rule
> anymore.

Oh, I still think a tabstop of 2 is insane (for various reasons, some
explained in the thread you mentioned).

No matter --- Junio will use --whitespace=fixup to convert your spaces
to tabs anyway.  Just thought I could give some survival tips.

Regards,
Jonathan