Re: tabs in source code

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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:14 -0500, Jeremy Weathers wrote:
> I hate multiple spaces in source code when a single tab does the job
> of indenting the code just fine.

Tabs/spaces whatever. There's not a single tool that will misformat code
only using spaces, whereas the majority of tools will need to be set up
to show tabs correctly, and that's assuming the indentation levels
across all of the code bases you use are consistent.

Sure that doesn't matter if tabs are used for nested indentation and
spaces for formatting, but unless you wrote the code yourself (or the
code's author was anal retentive) the chances of that are approximately
0%.

Spaces it is, for portability sakes. Unless you're not being portable of
course in which case be happy, you've got life easy.

> Please convert your spaces into tabs if you think anyone will ever
> want/need to edit your code.

Or just get an editor that deals with whatever crap you throw at it in a
consistent manner without giving you shit. If yours doesn't, then hate
your editor (and get a better one!).

Cheers,

Martin.

• Jeremy Weathers 22:14 on 19 Jun 2006
  • Martin Ebourne 22:31 on 19 Jun 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 22:51 on 19 Jun 2006
    • peter (Peter da Silva) 22:54 on 23 Jun 2006
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  • jrodman 03:30 on 20 Jun 2006
    • A. Pagaltzis 04:19 on 20 Jun 2006
• Martin Ebourne 00:38 on 20 Jun 2006
• Robert G. Werner 00:51 on 20 Jun 2006
  • Mike Macgirvin 01:46 on 20 Jun 2006
    • Phil!Gregory 03:44 on 20 Jun 2006
  • Juerd 01:51 on 20 Jun 2006
    • Guy Thornley 02:32 on 20 Jun 2006
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    • Re: tabs in source code David Cantrell 16:42 on 20 Jun 2006
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  • sabrina downard 05:05 on 20 Jun 2006
  • demerphq 08:03 on 20 Jun 2006
• Foofy 08:39 on 20 Jun 2006
  • A. Pagaltzis 12:52 on 20 Jun 2006
• peter (Peter da Silva) 21:34 on 23 Jun 2006

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