Re: The One True Style of indentation:

I've got a couple of problems with tabs. Primarily it is with our source control which never seems to read the tabs from MSDOS files the same when pushed out to our Solaris boxes. Additionally every editor needs to have the tab set to the same value in order to have the same 'look' and organization.

coreolyn

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Re: Re: The One True Style of indentation: by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2002 at 22:46 UTC
every editor needs to have the tab set to the same value in order to have the same 'look' and organization Why is that? Can you give an example of when having tab as indention makes things look bad?	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: The One True Style of indentation: by coreolyn (Parson) on Apr 17, 2002 at 15:11 UTC
If I use a tab in vi on a unix box then (after submitting to source control which xlates the return characters for OS's) and then check it out to my 2000 box, I have to set whatever editor I use to the same 4 space tab character, otherwise my code can have a tab of sometimes 8 characters. Possibly this has something to do with the checkin/checkout process. Bottom line - I've had to adjust to using spaces for my indentation in order to have the code look the way I want it to on a consistent basis. coreolyn	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: The One True Style of indentation: by Anonymous Monk on Apr 17, 2002 at 00:13 UTC
Can you give an example of when having tab as indention makes things look bad? When an editor has replaced some spaces with tabs, and some not, then you read it on another editor, the result looks very bad.	[reply]
The One True Style of indentation: by Anonymous Monk on Apr 17, 2002 at 01:55 UTC
I think tabs are most readable, hence, i use tabs	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: The One True Style of indentation: by Anonymous Monk on Apr 17, 2002 at 01:42 UTC
But that's doesn't make tabs evil. It just means an evil editor was used.	[reply]


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