[cc-devel] More review of liblicense changes since 0.4
Asheesh Laroia
asheesh at creativecommons.org
Wed Jan 9 18:20:47 EST 2008
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Peter Miller wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:33 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
>> pmiller has committed an .indent.pro file to the source tree that switches
>> us to GNU style indenting, which is fine. Curiously, he sets --tab-size0
>> rather than giving tabs a width > 0. Why?
>
> Because different people tell their editor to have different tab widths,
> and then fill their code with tabs. (Some editors fail to distinguish
> indent steps from tab widths.) This means for them, the code is
> correctly formatted, but for everyone else who has different tabs, the
> indenting is wrong, and ugly wrong at that. The only way around it is
> to not use tabs at all, thus --tab-size0
[snip]
Thanks for the excellent clarification - we'll stick with --tab-size0.
-- Asheesh.
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