An annoying thing is Eclipse doesn't have a global setting for all instances, its setting is per workspace. I wish I were wrong. As I have multiple workspaces for various branches, it's easy to forget to configure the workspace whenever I create a new one.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Deepak Garg [mailto:deepak.g...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 12:52 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Coding conventions, spaces and tabs > > +1 > > > In Eclipse it is easy to configure the editor to replace 'tabs' with 'spaces' > and > also to kill the trailing whitespaces: > > To remove the trailing whitespaces on save: > > Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Save Actions -> Configure Project Specific > settings -> (choose project) -> Configure -> Choose "Remove Trailing > WhiteSpace" > > > Thanks, > Deepak > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Edison Su [mailto:edison...@citrix.com] > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 10:56 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: Coding conventions, spaces and tabs > > +1 > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wido den Hollander [mailto:w...@widodh.nl] > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 9:38 AM > > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > > Subject: Coding conventions, spaces and tabs > > > > Hi, > > > > While working on CloudStack I noticed that a lot of files still use > > tabs instead of spaces. > > > > I've been working on the agent mainly and there it seems bad. > > > > The coding convention [0] says: > > > > "Must indent with space not tabs. Indentation = 4 spaces" > > > > Now, I'm sure this is legacy, but would anybody vote against fixing > > this? > > > > A simple find + sed could fix a lot: > > > > $ find -name '*.java' -exec sed -i --posix -e 's/\t/ /g' {} \; > > > > I would want to try with the agent first and see how that works out, > > later on we can fix other components like api, core and server. > > > > Objections? Suggestions? > > > > Wido > > > > [0]: > > > http://docs.cloudstack.org/CloudStack_Documentation/Design_Documents/ > C > > o > > ding_Conventions
