Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:19:46 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question regarding style Message-ID: <19991220091946.D38843@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <19991219212307.A4452@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: <19991218200902.B26001@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <19991219212307.A4452@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Sun 1999-12-19 (21:23), Nik Clayton wrote: > > This due to the fact that if you change indent levels you have to use > > those 2 space indents anyways. > > Don't particularly care. I'm agnostic on the issue, as long as Xemacs works > correctly :-) > > For what it's worth, style(9) says > > Do not add whitespace at the end of a line, and only use tabs followed by > spaces to form the indentation. Do not use more spaces than a tab will > produce and do not use spaces in front of tabs. > > So a 10 character indent is one tab plus two spaces, not 10 spaces. That > seems to be what Xemacs does by default. And is what vim with the fdp example .vimrc does. I think we should stick to it, since we've got a reasonable harmony between the xemacs behaviour and a vim behaviour. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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