Ulrich Mueller posted on Sat, 06 Jun 2015 12:17:25 +0200 as excerpted: >>>>>> On Sat, 6 Jun 2015, Michał Górny wrote: > >> Visual space is what you set in your editor. Which also gives tab the >> advantage that you can set it to something good for you, like 'more >> than 2 spaces so that it is readable'. > > *If* we should agree on using tabs, then we should also standardise the > tab width. Using the same rules for indenting and whitespace as for > ebuilds (i.e., tab stops every four positions) suggests itself: > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/ index.html#indenting-and-whitespace
The bike shed simply /must/ be black... with pink polka dots! =:^) (Somewhat) More seriously, standardizing the tab size defeats the purpose, letting people decide for themselves, particularly when it's to be the declared horizontal spacing standard in a file such as this, where mixed spaces and tabs can be avoided, so someone's personal setting shouldn't be mixed up by someone using spaces instead (and if it is, the non-standard spaces in place of tabs is simply much more obvious, allowing easier detection /due/ to the non-standardized tabsize, and replacing with tabs as appropriate). But IMO it's all simply bikeshedding, regardless. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
