On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:03 PM, sebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 20/05/2008, Oberhuber, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Is there any guideline on tabs vs spaces in Commons? > > Dunno ... my view is that tabs are nothing but trouble, and should > never be used for formatting new code.
+1 Niall >> Given that due to the Copyright Text Change we have >> A diff on each and every file already, now might be >> A good time to do such a global cleanup, in order >> To simplify diffs / patches in upcoming bugfix >> Releases, and cross-porting patches between the >> 1.5 and 2.0 streams. >> > > Yes, indeed. > >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River >> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member >> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm >> >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Dennis Lundberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Montag, 19. Mai 2008 19:54 >> > To: Commons Developers List >> > Subject: Re: [NET] Tabs and spaces >> > >> > sebb wrote: >> > > Looks like most of NET uses spaces for indentation. >> > > >> > > [There are about 28,000 lines starting with 4 or more spaces; only >> > > about 2,000 lines starting with tab] >> > > >> > > However, there are quite a few files that use tabs; it >> > looks like the >> > > assumption is that tabs are every 4 spaces - but of course >> > this is not >> > > necessarily how all editors and printers are set up... >> > > >> > > Any views on fixing these? >> > >> > I'd replace each tab with 4 spaces. >> > >> > > I'm happy to do this. >> > > >> > > I noticed the problem when creating some patches for NET. >> > > >> > > S/// >> > > >> > > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Dennis Lundberg >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
