Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 21:04:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Eric Haug <ejh@eas.slu.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: style 9 pet annoyance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902012101560.3081-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <19990202095150.T71384@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 1 February 1999 at 17:03:55 -0600, Eric Haug wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > You should run vi with set tabstop=3 and shiftwidth=3 > > and see what you think of the 4 spaces that are IMHO > > now making the code look really bad. > > If that's the case, maybe we shouldn't. Having 4 (not 3) spaces would be a better idea. Many people do this. > > > I think that the spaces stuff should be eliminated > > in favor of only tabs. > > I don't think that will meet with general agreement. I don't see why it shouldn't, except people like to be stuck in their ways. If everyone could just echo "set ts=4 sw=4" > .exrc, we wouldn't have these tab/space arguments. That's probably way too much to ask, of course. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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