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  • From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Peter Miller <millerp AT canb.auug.org.au>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.sourceforge.net
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] More review of liblicense changes since 0.4
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:20:47 -0800 (PST)
  • Resent-date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:40:14 -0800 (PST)
  • Resent-from: Asheesh Laroia <paulproteus AT acm.jhu.edu>
  • Resent-to: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org

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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