Re: Tab width

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Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Judging from the source files the libspf2 developers use a tab with of
> 4. I'm not saying that it's wrong, but the universal standard is 8 and
> using anything else causes some problems since it's not so easy to tell
> all possible editors what tab width to use - not to mention the
> terminal.

That's why source code should never contain tabs for the purpose of 
indentation.  Please expand them to spaces!

> Which explains why the output of spfquery -help is so ugly. 
> Personally I prefer to avoid tabs altogether, partly because they cause
> lines in patch files not to line up well.
>
> But if you want to help people like me to help you, you can put these
> lines in comments at the very top of every file:
>
> -*- tab-width:4; indent-tabs-mode:t; c-basic-offset:4; -*-
> vi: set tabstop=4 noexpandtab:
>
> (You can put the vi line near the end instead if you wish.)

Don't do that.  Avoid tabs for the purpose of indentation at all costs.

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