Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Plea: re-indent the kernel source | From | <> | Date | Tue, 1 Oct 1996 11:44:17 -0400 (EDT) |
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> > Indentation of 2 or 4 is more appropiate. > > Also having indentation of 8 _and_ trying to keep linelenghts < 80 is > > impossible. > > 8 space indentations (or rather, hard-tab indentations) is really > non-negotiable. Read the "Documentation/CodingStyle" file on details, but > essentially if you have problems with keeping your lines short enough with > 8-characters indents, you should probably start looking for another career > than programming. Essentially, I think that people that can't keep their > indentation levels down to a maximum of three are simply not good > programmers.
I fail to see how ANYONE can code for a living and use spaces instead of hard tabs. Maybe if all one does is write toy procedures, then spaces may be manageable. :)
> The Great White Leader (but call me "bwana" for short), feels that 80x25 > characters is entirely possible. He doesn't want to use such devices himself, > but hey, even back when he _did_ use those kinds of resolutions he used > 8-character indents. > > Linus
Snatch said source file into favorite word processor and shrink to favorite font/size and print. No problem here.
Melvin
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