Code is looked at by more than just your favorite editor. I know some people who still open up Notepad to do some quick edits. I cat code all the time. gofmt ensures that every way you look at the code, be it through a terminal, one or two lines at a time, a web browser, a diff tool, or the most decked out editor out there, the code looks the same.
On a daily basis, I look at code in at least 5 different tools, of which I have full control over just two. I'd pay the costs that gofmt requires to a diff output to ensure that the code looks the same in every viewer. On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 8:50:36 AM UTC-5, Manlio Perillo wrote: > > Of course the tab is elastic **only** for a struct fields. gofmt will > continue to format other code normally. > Struct fields are the only block of code that gofmt will align > automatically, and the alignment may change is you add or remove a field. > > Manlio Perillo > > On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 2:46:59 PM UTC+1, Manlio Perillo wrote: >> >> Yes. >> >> In fact I wrote that alignment should be done by the editor, not gofmt. >> >> >> Manlio Perillo >> >> On Thursday, January 30, 2020 at 1:46:37 AM UTC+1, kortschak wrote: >>> >>> I suspect Manlio was referring to something like this >>> http://nickgravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 01:10 +0100, Wojciech S. Czarnecki wrote: >>> > Dnia 2020-01-29, o godz. 09:56:35 >>> > Manlio Perillo <manlio...@gmail.com> napisał(a): >>> > >>> > > What I propose is to use a tab between the field name and type. >>> > > It is responsibility of the editor or html formatter to align the >>> > > code. >>> > >>> > This ("between") assumes an agreed constant width of the tab >>> > representation. >>> > Ie. it will never work as intended in the field as people are using >>> > tabwidths from 2 to 8. >>> > >>> > > Manlio Perillo >>> > >>> > Hope this helps, >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Wojciech S. Czarnecki >>> > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> > Groups "golang-nuts" group. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> > send an email to golan...@googlegroups.com. >>> > To view this discussion on the web visit >>> > >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20200130011051.2e18a964%40xmint >>> >>> > . >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/93c86ff4-0237-4020-b8ea-b4265b7924b6%40googlegroups.com.
