Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:05:07 -0700 | From | "Kok, Auke" <> | Subject | Re: coding style |
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Chris Friesen wrote: > Consider two people, one with tabs as 8 characters and one with tabs as > 4 characters. If person A aligns using a tab plus a space (giving 9 > characters), then the alignmnet will be all screwed up for person B (who > will see 5 characters of alignment). > > The only rule that works (setting aside bad tools) is: > > "use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment" > > If that means you need to use two dozen spaces, then so be it.
it would be awesome if the checkpatch.pl script could distinguish between indentation and alignment space usage - this is going to cause major confusion with patch submitters.
I personally think that the sentence
"use tabs for indents and spaces for alignment"
should also be in the CodingStyle document to avoid confusion.
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