Re: Indentation (was Re: invalid installdirs values)

Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # from David E. Wheeler
> # on Saturday 27 September 2008 20:45:
> 
>> Um, can we have --indent-columns 4 please? And no tabs? Also, ---
>> maximum-line-length=78 is probably the minimum it should be, not 72.
> 
> So, we can't use tabs because emacs didn't bring enough for everyone.  
> Fine.  I accepted that years ago at which point I adopted 2-space 
> indent.  If we *could* use tabs, you could look at them however you 
> like, because they would be adjustable.  Sigh.

I don't believe it, it's 2008 and we're still arguing about hard tabs.

It doesn't work.  It requires too much careful coordination and per-project
editor tweaking.  I set 4-character tabs to work on one project that's doing
the "use hard tabs as configurable indentation" trick and then another project
uses hard tabs, but they mean 8-character tabs (like in the perl source).

It's just not worth it.

4-character indentation, no tabs.  It's simple.  It's common.  It's hard to
screw up.  Then we don't have to rewrite every patch we get in.


>  no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no 
> no no
> 
> At least, until we upgrade to widescreen SMTP.

You have complete control over where your mail client wraps.  If you can have
40 terminal windows open you can have a slightly wider mail client.


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