On 29 August 2016 at 22:30, Eric Engestrom <e...@engestrom.ch> wrote:
> A couple of people have also suggested I add `tab_width`, but IMO this concept > should die: it comes from the confusion between indentation (a logic concept > meant to convey code structure) and alignment (an aesthetic concept). > If you need a specific size for your tabs, you're not indenting, you're > aligning, which makes no sense to do with a character that will have a varying > size in the first place. > There is a (pointless IMO, who cares?) war between tab and space indentation > with various arguments on each side, but I have yet to find anyone with a > single > argument in favour of using varying-width characters to align code... yet I > keep > seeing people doing it. > (OK, that's not true: I do have a preference for space indentation, because it > makes it harder for people to do the wrong thing when they get confused) > </rant> (sorry) Hehe [1] comes to mind when people start talking on the topic. Then again some prefer to separate the two - use tabs for indent and space for alignment, but that's likely a minority so I won't bother. But seriously: tab_width serves more than just alignment purposes - people have different setups/visual comprehension thus wide tabs can make things easier to digest or (on the other end of the spectrum) too annoying/distracting ;-) That said, we can tweak things as/if needed. Thanks, Emil [1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/96d51190854058fe8f6953dd4f1a50047ef47bd9/687474703a2f2f6576616465666c6f772e636f6d2f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031312f30332f54616273537061636573426f74682e706e67 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
