[GRASS-dev] Tabs and spaces in C code

[Huidae Cho]

Correcting myself.. "indentation level from 5 (two tabs + 4 spaces) to 4
(two tabs)"


On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to add one more perspective to this discussion. In terms of
> formatting, mixing tabs and spaces looks fine, but when I change
> indentation levels, my editor (vim) doesn't like mixed tabs and spaces. For
> example, I want to change the indentation level from 4 (two tabs) to 3 (one
> tab + 4 spaces), vim doesn't like it and hitting backspace deletes only one
> space. I found some settings to deal with it automagically, but entering
> after an opening brace does not indent properly yet and I have to manually
> deindent one level. I couldn't find any good trick to solve this issue if
> any exists.
>
> I think, if we want to mix tabs and spaces, we need good support from our
> editors, otherwise, it can be very annoying to mix tabs and spaces manually.
>
> Huidae
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Vaclav Petras wrote:
>>
>> > > The "rules" are that indentation in multiples of 4 columns, and we
>> > > don't care whether that indentation is acheived through spaces or
>> > > tabs.
>> >
>> > So, since we are providing a script and standard for indentation, let's
>> use
>> > only spaces* in this script (rather then enforcing mixing of tabs and
>> > spaces when there is no reason for it).
>>
>> Some might consider the reduction in file size to be a reason for
>> using tabs. I have no opinion either way.
>>
>> --
>> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
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