From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 30 19: 8:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB6D37B655 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FWZ00LXQXY2ND@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:08:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA66505; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:06:02 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 21:06:01 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: style(9) In-reply-to: <20000630114924.A78968@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000630210601.J20702@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <20000630114924.A78968@mithrandr.moria.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, June 30, 2000, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > No. Anyway, you can set your tab size to whatever you want. So long as > it is a _tab_, and not 2 or 4 or 8 spaces. If you're heading into the > margin constantly, you should simplify your code, or break it up into > (preferably reusable) functions that perform one task. Setting a tab width to something other than 8 would tend to break formatting for people with normal editors. Just try viewing bsd.port.mk in vi with default settings and not seeing clutter. -- |Chris Costello |Random access is the optimum of the mass storages. `-------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message