Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Dec 2002 12:30:57 -0700 | From | Herman Oosthuysen <> | Subject | Re: Indention - why spaces? |
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This problem is as old as the typewriter itself. The trouble is that a Tab character doesn't have a fixed size - some set it to 3 characters wide, some to 4 some to 8, or whatever.
The 'indent' program was written a couple of decades ago, to pretty print C code. It has a 'GNU' standard, but I'm not aware of a 'Linux' standard. Anyhoo, the only way to prevent indentation wars is to use spaces, not tabs and to set 'diff' to ignore white space when comparing files...
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 07:53:22PM +0100, Emiliano Gabrielli escreveu: > >><quote who="Dave Jones"> >> >>>On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:49:33PM +0000, John Bradford wrote: >>> > > Well, I disagree: http://www.wiggy.net/rants/tabsvsspaces.xhtml >>> > In my opinion, indentation in any form is irritating. >>> >>>The devfs source code is --> that way. >>> >> >>IMHO and in my personal projects I use the following indenting rules: >> >>1) use TABs for _indentation_ >>2) use SPACEs for aligning >> >>here is an exaple: >> >><tab><tab>if (cond) { >><tab><tab><tab>dosometing; >><tab><tab><tab>printf("This is foo: '%s', and this bar: '%d'", >><tab><tab><tab> foo, bar); >> >>where tabs are explicitated, while spaces not. >> >> >>I think this way combines both tab and spaces advantages, allowing each coder >>to have its own indentation width, but NEVER destroing the aspect of the code. >> >>This is only my opinion :-P > > > I second that. > > - Arnaldo > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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