Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:18:23 +0100 (CET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates | |
On Feb 27 2008 16:11, SL Baur wrote:
>On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote:
>
>> Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the
>> indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)?
>
>Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly. 8 spaces and a
>single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing
>the text in a variable width font.
By the way, neither tab nor bunch-a'-spaces makes alignment look good.
Try:
/* fails when !monospace || tab != 8 */
fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING
"Opening quotes should be right after (");
/* fails if !monospace */
fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING
"Opening quotes should be right after (");
hm... :-/
|  |