RE: [PATCH] AT2 rewrites (resubmit)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kalle Marjola [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> > Personally I would prefer to have tabstops at 4 and idents at 4. 
> > Would make life much easier in any editor I guess. My 
> editor (BBEdit) 
> > doesnt have virtual tabstops so I have to do it manually and I hate 
> > it.
> > 
> > Would it be too keen to decide to change that rule?
> 
> The idea in that is that most of the computer systems in the 
> world has 
> been configured so that tab is 8. If we change that, then all 
> kind of cat, 
> more, less, print etc. outputs of the source code get f*d up 
> unless tab 
> size of those is also modified to 8.

not so - since the Coding style document clearly state that tabs should not be saved to disk but replaces with spaces - so all these tools wouldn't mind at all as they will not be seeing tabs but only spaces.

> Why can't you people just get an editor that auto-indents 
> with spaces? :]

Isn't that the whole point ? I have an editor which indents with spaces (KDevelop). All the Kannel sources either do not have tab stops at all, or very little - so how about just forgetting about tab stops completly ?

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