[SM-Discuss] Request for comments - formating in spells

Mathieu Lonjaret lejatorn at smgl.homelinux.net
Wed Jul 23 06:27:17 EDT 2008


I prefer using tabs for indentation as one gets the tab width flexibility which makes everyone happy about how large they want the indent to be. 

That said, I don't mind using spaces instead as it's pretty much transparent when writing code, since the editors I use (vim or acme) are both decent enough to handle spaces as well as tabs. I would have assumed any editor would fare well no matter what you use...
The only thing that matters in the end is to be coherent and stick with the indent method which was used for a given file, so that it stays readable whatever means you use to display it (thinking of cat, less, etc...)

Then if some ppl have enough free time on their hands to spend it on "fixing" indent, good for them, if they really think that can help the whole community and not only for the sake of imposing their style... 
However as it's been already said, it should not get in the way of other ppl who want to review real commits, so I'm in favor of separate commits for indents.

Cheers,
Mathieu
 


 



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