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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

EMACS can actually format a shell script for us, but it does have 
parameters I believe, and we may just need to come up with a uniform set 
of parameters for shell-script-mode to put in front of every source file 
in EMACS "local variables" notation: 
http://www.gnu.org/manual/emacs-21.2/html_chapter/emacs_33.html#SEC486
I understand that not everyone's using EMACS, but that's the best 
non-people-centric measure I can think of.

Dufflebunk wrote:

>         I'm mostly to blame for those tabs. When I rewrite a lib I usually use
> tabs rather than spaces because hitting the space bar 12 times or the
> backspace 12 times isn't my idea of fun for indentation. 
>
>         A consistent coding style in sorcery would be nice, but due to a lack
> of something written out on what this style is, and a lack of time to
> code in it, it's not that way. There is (or was) a draft document on the
> wiki on what we wanted the style like in a rewrite.
>
>         It's easy to maintain the same coding style if you're the only one
> writing the code. It's hard to maintain if there are several people. 
>
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 10:45, Jason Flatt wrote:
>  
>
> > This is a /really/ minor point, but I just thought I'd bring it up to find out 
> > where I/we stand on the issue.
> >
> > When I first got into Sorcerer 1.5 years ago, one of the big things people 
> > lauded Kyle about was how he wrote and spaced his code and how it made it so 
> > much more readable.  I personally could see some benefit to the way Kyle had 
> > coded things, but I wasn't necessarily sure that his spacing was all /that/ 
> > wonderful.  :^)
> >
> > However, it seems that we in Source Mage have gotten away from that coding 
> > style.  It also seems to me that there really is /no/ coding style anymore 
> > and it's possible to find code with single spaces, two or more spaces, tabs 
> > and mixed spacing all through out the whole of Source Mage.  I certainly 
> > don't want to hold up progress w/my Type A tendencies,  :^)  but I also don't 
> > want to hold up my progress by sticking to a coding style that no one else is 
> > using.
> >
> > So, which is it?  Get uniform based on something someone has put into place, 
> > or just go willy-nilly doing whatever?
> >    
>
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