Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:28:16 +0100 From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@czv.com> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tabs and spaces in www and doc Message-ID: <6fbbcee43d38ac88f0daa86ebbd0a1e8@czv.com> In-Reply-To: <1110269526.3928.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200503080336.j283aPuE084945@freefall.freebsd.org> <1110268418.3928.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> <ccb1ebd411024b4df20e965805455850@czv.com> <1110269526.3928.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mar 8, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:08 +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: >> On Mar 8, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> >>> Again, another thing I'm sure there's a good reason for, but why do >>> www >>> (and doc, I suppose) use two spaces up until you get to 8, and then >>> use >>> a tab? Why not use tabs and set the width to two spaces? Spaces make >>> it >>> a real hassle to (re)format ;). >> >> I've seen the opposite also: One tab followed by spaces. And >> differences >> from line to line, depending on who edited last. Certainly, it would >> be >> good to know what should be used, tabs or spaces, so that things can >> be >> cleaned up while working on it. > > The one tab occurs when it can replace 8 spaces. I personally think > this > is bad style (but don't want to start YATVS war), especially since My > Favorite Editor(tm) defaults to a tab size of two spaces. OK, so I screwed up when I replaced tabs with spaces on lines I edited. The current "rule" is to indent with two spaces but replace 8 spaces with a tab? For most other projects, I usually configure my editor to produce 4 spaces per tab, generally resulting in tab free code. But I'm happy to adjust to whatever is deemed appropriate for www and doc. /czv
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