FreeTDS Development Group

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

The math was simply to illustrate how gindent actually deals with
indentation.  There's no "formula" explicit in our indent settings.

Indenting expressions in this way really does add to clarity, especially in
complicated expressions that span multiple lines.

Once we are done tweaking all our settings, I plan to create a set of emacs
settings that will help indent properly (for our definition of properly).
Then it's basically just a matter of hitting "tab" to indent a particular
line.

I don't think anyone plans to do indent runs as frequently as you suggest.
Maybe once per release, if even that much.  Make a reasonable attempt to
indent consistently, and you'll be fine.  The idea is to have a tree that's
mostly consistent and easy to read, not to strictly adhere to a firm set of
rules upon pain of death.  At least, that's my interpretation of what we're
aiming for.

Cheers,
--nick

-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
[mailto:bounce-freetds-145195 AT franklin.oit.unc.edu] 
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:02 PM
To: TDS Development Group
Subject: [freetds] RE: indent (next shot:) )


At 3:06 PM -0500 10/28/2002, Lowden, James K wrote:
>Splain to me, just so I'm clear, is this right:
>
>       if ((ret = tds_process_row_tokens(dbproc->tds_socket, &rowtype,
>                                          &computeid)) == TDS_SUCCEED) {

Why don't we end it with making this:

        if ((ret = tds_process_row_tokens(dbproc->tds_socket, &rowtype
                &computeid)) == TDS_SUCCEED) {

i.e. only use 1 tab past the start line for multi line statement indention?

Having the stuff way out to the right is more confusing to me, not 
less. (Though I don't mind padding things over when it's less than 
1/2 the way across window, but I'd imagine indent can't do that.)

Also, the idea of using a formula seems really strange. My 
understanding is that Brian's position is to not change his tab stop 
because he uses it on multiple projects (and I feel the same way).

So now we have to do the math to figure out how far to ident 
something? Or run indent before every checkin?

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