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Dustin Navea wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid42ABA409.40408@gmail.com" type="cite">Ok, Now I am
getting fed up with all this petty bickering over indent amounts.
Alexandre wants 4 space indents. As soon as I get Linux installed on
my box, I'm going to _MANUALLY_ go through every single file and make
sure that we have 4 space indent, since I wouldnt know how to write up
a script to do it automatically.. Then I'm going to make diffs and
submit patches. I honestly prefer 2-space, but at the same time, I can
understand why most devs prefer 4 space. My question is though, how
long will it take once the changes have been made before the code is
all mixed up again? Is there any way we can just not accept patches
that dont conform? Of course if we do that, there would be some angry
devs, so maybe a compromise for this would be to accept the patch but
run a script to auto format it to 4 space before it gets committed to
CVS??
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Dustin
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Gerold J. Wucherpfennig wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Sorry Dimi, my opinion differs here too...
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1. I don't want to type the spacebar 4 times an ident is made
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(though I could configure the text editor to do "this" for me).
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2. I want to stick to the maximum column width of 80 chars. With
<br>
5 idents in a line that would only left 60 chars of code compared
<br>
to 70.
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3. In my opinion with an ident of 2 chars you can clearly distinguish
<br>
two diffent idents though my eyes are really not the best, so an
ident
<br>
of 4 chars is unnecessary.
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4. I don't want to use 4-space idents if there are other wine
developers
<br>
who also use differing idents, because I not convinced of 4-space
idents.
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</blockquote>
<font size="-1">I've always wondered, why not tabs? Any decent text
editor can display tabs however wide someone wants them to be. Wouldn't
that solve the whole problem? Or is there some other problem with tabs
that I'm missing?<br>
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--Mitchell Mebane<br>
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-- Franklin P. Adams</pre>
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