Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:56:42 +0100 |
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Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> writes:
> Why hinder a developer who prefer > 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width?
I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet.
> By only using tabs as indents, and > changing the CodeStyle to be something like "maximum 80 > characters-wide lines, with a tab-setting of 8 spaces",
This changes nothing.
> that is > possible + easier to write code-checkers [2].
I doubt it.
> Or are we really that concerned about the disk-space? ;)
Unpacked sources will be much bigger with not tabs, sure. -- Krzysztof Halasa
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