Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 1996 21:11:31 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Plea: re-indent the kernel source |
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On Sun, 29 Sep 1996, Lauri Tischler wrote: > > Having indentation of 8 spaces is plain waste of screen area. > 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.
> Printing the Source with current excessive indentation is quite > hopeless. > Apparently the Great White Leader uses _only_ X with _wide_ window > and has access to fine wide lineprinters.
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
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