On 18-Sep-2001 John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:08:52AM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
>
>> Yes, and I want to use them properly. So what I am supposed to do? Use
>> /always/ 8-character-tabs, even if the rest of the "paragraph" seems to
>> be intended with 4 characters?
>
> no, keep to the style of the file. Eventually someone will convert it to
> tabs properly.
In general we should ALWAYS use "tab-stops" for indentation and never
spaces! John is right here just use the style of the file you're editing,
but COMPLAIN on the list about BAD FORMATING of file xxx.[Ch], so that
someone can reformat it and then commit a "reformat-patch" only!
The only exception I make is when having stuff like
void function(a lot of paramters, ...
and here we go on)
I use spaces for indentation till '(' on the second line. This then
permits to see the file in every editor with every 'tab-width' you
define automatically, good. Eventually Emacs will get a mode where this
stuff can be defined automatically ;)
Jürgen
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