Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:47:53 -0800 | From | Benny Halevy <> | Subject | Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines |
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On Feb. 25, 2008, 13:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote: > Benny Halevy wrote: >> On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote: >> >>> Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >>> >>>> Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Why hinder a developer who prefer >>>>> 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation >>>> only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. >>>> >>>> >>> You mean for split lines? Hopefully there won't be that many, so there >>> is just to delete the tabs it added and replace it with spaces. >>> >> IMO, tabs SHOULD be used for syntactic indentation and spaces for >> decoration purpose only. I.e. a line should start with a number of tabs >> equal to its nesting level and after that only spaces should be used. >> for example, the following code >> >> for (i = 0; i < n; i++) printk("a very long format string", some, parameters); >> >> should be formatted like this: >> >> <tabs...>for (i = 0; i < n; i++) >> <tabs...><tab>printk("a very long format string", >> <tabs...><tab> some, parameters); >> >> this will show exactly right regardless of your editor's tab expansion setting >> as long as you use fixed-width fonts - where the screen width of the space character >> is equal to all other characters. Once you start using tabs instead of spaces >> to push text right so it appears exactly below some other text on the line above >> you make a dependency on *your* editor's tab expansion policy and that's not very >> considerate for folks who prefer a different one. >> > Don't know what to say more then: Yup! :) > > But the CodeStyle-document and checkpatch.pl does not agree with that. >
I know :( If there's enough interest I can take a stab at seeing what it'd take to implement such a check in checkpatch.pl
Benny
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