2012/8/27 Darren Shepherd <dar...@godaddy.com>: > Olivier, > > Why is there a strong preference of white space over tabs for the > pom.xml's? I noticed you changed all of them. The thing is, when I > created all the pom files I actually created them with 2 spaces instead > of tabs (that's my vim settings). When I start using the pom's in > Eclipse it donned on me that the Eclipse default is to use tabs over > spaces and thus when you go to edit the pom's in Eclipse you end up with > poorly formatted garbage. So I actually went through and reformatted > everything with tabs. > > Is there a strong standard to use spaces instead of tabs? I kinda > thought the java world (and xml world) seemed to prefer tabs in general. Perso all opensource projects I'm involved @apache and others use *only* spaces. So maybe I'm maniac :-)
A more general question I have: is there any style files for ide ? (at least eclipse and idea). > > Darren > > > > -- Olivier Lamy Talend: http://coders.talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy
