FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

Anything that assumes a tab stop other than 8 spaces will look like crap on
the majority of terminals in their default configuration.

We should either use a tab stop of 8, or no tabs at all.

My personal preferences are no tabs, and an indentation of two spaces per
indent level (it's much easier than counting to 3 or 5 or 8 or whatever a
billion times a day...)

Cheers,
--nick

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From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
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Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 9:47 AM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] Re: indent(1) bent


> 
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 
> > I like tabs.  They're more flexible than blanks.
> 
> I know this risks starting a religious bloodbath, but I'll register a 
> different opinion.  I think tabs are horrible.  Ever since editors had 
> the capability of visually representing tabs as a configurable number 
> of spaces (a long time ago) I've worked on few multi-developer
> projects in
> which all the developers agreed on (a) whether tabs should be used and
> (b) how many spaces the tabs represent.  As a result, most source code
> ends up very difficult to read, because no matter what you tell your
> editor about how to represent the tab, code which has been touched by
> more than one developer doesn't have consistent visual indentation.
> The only projects on which consistent, legible code had a prayer were
> those in which hard tabs were avoided completely.
> 
> That's my 2 cents.
> 

In fact I propose two options. Or all use an indentation of 5 spaces or we
indent with a tab that represent 5 space (so developer can set tabspace to
whatever he want changing indentation look). 
It's supposed that after we indent all code all newe code will be indented
in such way before committing... so the problem will be resolved... (I hope)

freddy77

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