Re: On Tabs and Spaces

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Oct 16, 2007, 17:20 UTC
Message-ID: <4714F2CA.5000509@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <11F85069-1013-4685-9D56-C53F0F8231BF@MIT.EDU>

Michael Witten wrote:

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> On 16 Oct 2007, at 3:04:21 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
>> The C code is all tabs, with the tabs set at 8 spaces, but the
>> actual tab width isn't too important here as we never use the tab
>> for alignment beyond the left indent.
> 
> Consider this from diff-lib.c:
> 
>> /* A file entry went away or appeared */
>> static void diff_index_show_file(struct rev_info *revs,
>>                  const char *prefix,
>>                  struct cache_entry *ce,
>>                  unsigned char *sha1, unsigned int mode)
>> {
>>     diff_addremove(&revs->diffopt, prefix[0], ntohl(mode),
>>                sha1, ce->name, NULL);
>> }
> 
> There are mixed tabs and spaces for alignment.
>

Function declarations don't count ;-)

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> I suppose I'll be fine if I just set tab widths to 8.
> But 8 spaces! Good Lord. ;-)
> 
> I really hate tabs.
>

Well, using hard tabs is the only way we can let everyone have different levels of indentation while still having things look sort of sane.

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