Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:47:42 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r233052 - head/share/mk Message-ID: <373E5B77-704B-4E40-BBAB-10A54BA3A6E5@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120321004836.GB30795@lonesome.com> References: <201203162319.q2GNJjx5039482@svn.freebsd.org> <201203201019.40486.jhb@freebsd.org> <CADLo839Ef3bu_14AdexOWapOacFLk3MM9HK-oNLmtA52Cc9C6w@mail.gmail.com> <201203201728.21049.jhb@freebsd.org> <20120321004836.GB30795@lonesome.com>
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On 21/03/2012, at 11:18, Mark Linimon wrote: > Personally, I'd like to see us pick a "recommended way for new code", > whether it's one or two spaces, whatever. (8 spaces seems too much.) 2 space indents are fine IMO, but they are spaces. A tab character should be viewed as 8 spaces wide, but that doesn't = force you to have 8 space wide indents. If you change tab width then you need to teach each editor and viewer = that could possibly read your file what that width is, which is = basically an impossible task. Yes using just spaces, or coalescing 8 spaces into a tab uses more disk = space than just tabs, but that amounts to sweet FA these days. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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