Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Plea: re-indent the kernel source | Date | Sat, 28 Sep 1996 09:14:09 PDT | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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In message <96Sep28.094407-0400_edt.112242-27463+766@vger.rutgers.edu>, you w rite: >as closest to your preferred style. >And, yes, the Great Implementor made tab stops every 8 characters, but 8 is >just TOO BIG for indentation. Your point about limiting nesting level to >about 3 is generally valid, but there are _lots_ of places in the Linux >kernel where the nexting level is higher than that (bdflush is one of these). > So I'd request using just plain "-kr" rather than "-kr -i8". >
I like 8...do we use tabs or spaces?
I agree a uniform indenting is helpful...I also think chopping lines to 80 characters is useful (especially these /*************************/ lines)
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