From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 30 23:27:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C4037B5EF for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 23:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA04272; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 00:27:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <395D8FD7.484D9896@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:29:43 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Martin Horcicka , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: style(9) References: <20000630114924.A78968@mithrandr.moria.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > On Fri 2000-06-30 (11:38), Martin Horcicka wrote: > > > b. Aren't 8 characters too many? > > 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. Or simply get a wider editor. Seriously. Writing code in 80 columns is an anachronism. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message