Hi Ingo, Branden, I'm not going to answer in Savannah, because as Ingo, I also do not like interactive web interfaces. Let's discuss it over email.
Ingo claimed 7n is wasting screen. Branden claimed that preferring 5n is subjective. I agree with Branden that it is subjective, and moreover, prefer 7n. For my rationale, I'll say that I like indenting code with tabs, and tabs are of course 8-columns wide. Quoting the Linux kernel coding style: > 1) Indentation > -------------- > > Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. > There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) > characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to > be 3. > > Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where > a block of control starts and ends. Especially when you've been looking > at your screen for 20 straight hours, you'll find it a lot easier to see > how the indentation works if you have large indentations. > > Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes > the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a > 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need > more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix > your program. > > In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added > benefit of warning you when you're nesting your functions too deep. > Heed that warning. That pretty much tells all I think about this, except for one thing. Long lines are hard to read, and I tried reading a few pages with 5n, just to see, and I run `mman 3bsd arc4random` and a few more, just to see how it looks like. The first impression is: too much text. I have similar issues with the PDF book of the Linux man-pages that Deri produced. Too loong lines. I'm not saying all this to start a war between 5n and 7n, but rather to agree that we will disagree in what we consider sane defaults, and so I think having this configurable will be good for both. Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5
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