Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:18:23 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: multiple updates |
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On Feb 27 2008 16:11, SL Baur wrote: >On 2/27/08, Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> wrote: > >> Actually, I see this as an quite simple question: is tab _the >> indention-marker_? If not, then why the refusal of spaces indents (or mix)? > >Because mixing spaces and tabs is often ugly. 8 spaces and a >single tab often do not have the same width when you're viewing >the text in a variable width font.
By the way, neither tab nor bunch-a'-spaces makes alignment look good. Try:
/* fails when !monospace || tab != 8 */ fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING "Opening quotes should be right after (");
/* fails if !monospace */ fprintf(fp, KERN_WARNING "Opening quotes should be right after (");
hm... :-/
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