Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > Are other folks having problems with tab expansion differences between > editors? > > I load jtag.c into two different editors and get two different results > when tab width is set to 4. > > This makes it difficult to view a table like tms_seq in the two > editors. The editors are well established, JEdit and gedit. > > This reminds me why in my own source code internally, we don't use tabs. > > It extremely hard to mis-interpret the width of a space, and my hard > disk, compiler, and eyes cannot tell the difference. > > What are you seeing when you look at tms_seq? Does it look nice and > organized neatly into columns? > > > Dick
Looks bad in vim with ts=8 and ts=4. You can correct it for one but change to the other and it looks bad again. I tend to agree with you in this case that spaces are better for column alignment. However, not sure that this totally justifies banning tabs. -gene _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
