On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM Dave Fisher <w...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi -
>
> > On Jan 24, 2025, at 12:05 PM, ardovm (via GitHub) <g...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > ardovm commented on PR #256:
> > URL:
> https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pull/256#issuecomment-2613292891
> >
> >> Wiki is often outdated.
> >
> >   ...but I liked it that way... ;-)
> >
> >   In fact, I thought that that wiki page was written _after_ many files
> were already formatted with tabs.
> >
> >   It may be worth a short discussion on dev@.
>
> I’m reading this on dev. I’d like to know what currently busy developers
> like DamJan think.
>
>
I always had to use a tab size of 4.

As for spaces vs tabs, I usually try to preserve whatever the file
originally used, which is usually tabs for C++ and makefiles, and spaces
for Java.


> >
> >> Would that correspond to:
> >>
> >> `/* vim: set noet sw=4 ts=4: */`
> >
> >   This should represent the current state of many files, i.e. tabs, to
> be displayed as 4 spaces.
> >
> >   I was suggesting we rather set `et` instead of `noet`, using no tabs
> for indentation, but rather 4 spaces.
>
> If developer makes a mistake will this precommit hook fix our mistakes?
>

How can GitHub fix mistakes when we commit to gitbox.apache.org?


>
> Best,
> Dave
>
>
Damjan

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