...tabs in the source code... Werner Lemberg wrote: > I dislike them, too, but there are many editors which handle > them just fine. I don't see a problem here.
But would you be *opposed* to a strict no-tab rule? Carl Sorensen wrote: > The last communication we had about it, Han-Wen was > conditionally in favor and Jan was opposed. Are you sure? What do mean by "conditionally"? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-04/msg00103.html And it looks like Jan was also okay with it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-04/msg00104.html If there is anyone opposed to a strict no-tab rule, please speak up! If I get the official go-ahead from (both? either?) Han-Wen and Jan, I think I'll start working on it. Does anyone have a script to automate such a process across multiple files? I'm not too clever with such things (I don't know python either). The best I can do is this (using jEdit): 1) save a "tabs2spaces" macro: textArea.selectAll(); textArea.tabsToSpaces(); 2) bind it to a keyboard shortcut (<ALT>-1 is available) 3) open file; <ALT>-1; close file; repeat. There are 78 files in the scm folder, it wouldn't take that long at all. But probably one of you knows a better way (batch-style). Let me know. I don't want to waste time if I don't have to. Also, can we list all of the possible situations where we need to retain tabs? Ian mentioned .make files; the last time this came up Patrick McCarty mentioned something about demarcating syllables in lyrics, which I don't think I understand. (Patrick, can you give an example?) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2009-04/msg00080.html Are there any other tabs that need to stay? I'm looking at this: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/user/notation-appendices.itely#l500 But even in such cases, as long as my tab-width matches the tab-widths in the source, tabs2spaces should be fine. Is it correct to say that git (or savannah) translates all tabs to 8 spaces without exception? By the way, I'm intending to re-write the above-referenced notation-appendices node anyway; it was just an example. Thanks! - Mark _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
