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SubjectRe: Should "cleanpatch" clean up stretches of space?

On Jun 8 2007 09:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Right now I have "cleanspace" and "cleanpatch" clean up spaces before
>tabs, but it does not compress runs of spaces that aren't followed by a tab.
>
>I could make it do that; I was being conservative when I wrote it and
>opted for it not to do so, but I wanted to hear if people think it
>should (and if so, what should a reasonable threshold be, in addition
>for obviously crossing a tab line? Two spaces? Three? Four? Eight?)

Exactly. Linus (see CodingStyle) thinks non-8-tabs are heretic movements,
but well, let those people have their fun.
People should not be forced (by means of checker scripts that are officially
endorsed) to compress / {8}/ into a \t. In fact, people should not even
assume a tab is 8 when writing code. Instead,

\t while (foo) {
\t \t bar = some_function_with_lots_of_args(par1, par2, par3,
\t \t \x20+ par4, par5, par6);
\t }

\t should be used for "leading indent" only. Too bad almost noone cares.



Jan
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