Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:40:49 +0100 | From | Richard Knutsson <> | Subject | Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines |
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Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> writes: > > >> Why hinder a developer who prefer >> 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? >> > > I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation > only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. > You mean for split lines? Hopefully there won't be that many, so there is just to delete the tabs it added and replace it with spaces. > >> By only using tabs as indents, and >> changing the CodeStyle to be something like "maximum 80 >> characters-wide lines, with a tab-setting of 8 spaces", >> > > This changes nothing. > Exactly! But then we can remove the "we use 8 wide tabs in the kernel" in CodeStyle. > >> that is >> possible + easier to write code-checkers [2]. >> > > I doubt it. > Easier to write code-checkers? OK, maybe not. Just that I got hit by this problem at a time when I wrote a simple checker (don't remember its purpose). > >> Or are we really that concerned about the disk-space? ;) >> > > Unpacked sources will be much bigger with not tabs, sure. > Without no tabs at all, you mean? Don't want to think about that scenario, but with this suggestion, I would estimate maybe 0,5 - 1% bigger.
Thanks for your input
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