[GRASSGUI] Re: a couple of questions

[Michael Barton]

This is settable in preferences. I can also use spaces I think if that is
better. Sorry if I misunderstood your earlier comment.

Michael


On 4/23/07 9:41 PM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>>>  One thing that I notice is that when we both work on a file, we apparently
>>>> have different ways of indenting. This produces errors if not consistent
>>>> within a method or sometimes within a class. To get in sync, I was
>>>> wondering
>>>> how you do indents‹spaces or tabs? If spaces, how many? Glynn Clements
>>>> recommended tabs and a common indent distance of 4 spaces.
>>> 
>>> yes, it must be synchronized. Hm, I am using default python-mode in
>>> Emacs 21.3.1. On my laptop Emacs 22.x.
>> 
>> I'm using default python-mode tabs in Eclipse. It may be a thing of using
>> tabs or spaces. I can turn all my tabs to spaces. But a recent post from
>> Glynn suggested that tabs were preferable (for some reason I don't
>> remember).
> 
> Hmm; I don't recall that.
> 
> Spaces are more robust, as there's no ambiguity as to how many columns
> a space occupies. With tabs, there's always the problem of people
> thinking that tab width is a preference, and then their code isn't
> indented correctly (and, in Python, that means that it doesn't work).
> 
> If everyone always, without exception, used tabs for indentation, then
> you could change your editor's tab width with no adverse consequences.
> 
> Unfortunately, that's a pretty big "if"; in my experience, any
> approach which relies upon the concept of "without exception" is
> essentially doomed.
> 
> Ultimately, it doesn't matter what you use so long as your editor's
> tab width is 8 columns. If it's something else, then you *must* use
> spaces.

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