[arch-dev-public] Let's agree on a common coding style

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Sat Feb 13 11:48:40 EST 2010


On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:33:26 +0100
Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:

> Am Samstag, 13. Februar 2010 16:55:57 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
> > > * tabs have 8 characters
> > 
> > isn't the point of indentation with tabs just that everyone can
> > choose the width of the representation for himself?
> > unless you plan to use tabs for alignment, which i don't like.
> > tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment imho.
> 
> If everybody could use his own interpretation of how width tabs are
> shown the maximum column restriction gets pointless.

aha, okay i see.  so 'spaces for alignment' is ok?

Dieter


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