Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Plea: re-indent the kernel source | Date | Sun, 29 Sep 1996 19:35:40 -0600 | From | Warner Losh <> |
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: > 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 : : Use a 132 column screen (in fact most of the net code is formatted for : 132 colums). 8 spaces is right IMHO, and in a lot of other peoples.
However, one can always set the tab width to 4 if one uses hard tabs for said indentation. I view the BSD sources often with four position tabs, and it isn't too horrible generally. Might not be a bad workaround for people that don't have 132 column screens.
Its when tabs and spaces are mixed that it becomes a problem.
As for the Linux kernel, I don't care enough one way or another, so if Linus wants to do this, let him. :-)
Warner
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