Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread Roy Trubshaw
Brian T Brunner wrote:. [Snipped] In .vimrc :set sw=4 :set ai In .bashrc alias diff='diff -bw' Personally I like: alias diff='diff -bBiw' YMMV Toodles, Roy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 02:52:22 PM -0700 Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i? I would like to introduce other space operators as well. For example, we could use

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread m . roth
Devin Reade wrote: --On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 02:52:22 PM -0700 Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i? I would like to introduce other space operators as well. For

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread Devin Reade
--On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:27:22 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Minkowski space? Sure. I'll implement M-x minkowski-space-mode as soon as I get 'elsewhere' (in Minkowski terms, that is). Devin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread m . roth
Devin Reade wrote: --On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:27:22 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Minkowski space? Sure. I'll implement M-x minkowski-space-mode as soon as I get 'elsewhere' (in Minkowski terms, that is). You're sure that's not a vim option? mark Kirk: Warp 5, Scotty!

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/17/2011 2:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Devin Reade wrote: --On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:27:22 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Minkowski space? Sure. I'll implement M-x minkowski-space-mode as soon as I get 'elsewhere' (in Minkowski terms, that is). You're sure that's not a vim

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/17/2011 2:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Devin Reade wrote: --On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:27:22 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Minkowski space? Sure. I'll implement M-x minkowski-space-mode as soon as I get 'elsewhere' (in Minkowski terms, that is). You're

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/17/2011 2:36 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 6/17/2011 2:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Devin Reade wrote: --On Friday, June 17, 2011 02:27:22 PM -0400 m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Minkowski space? Sure. I'll implement M-x minkowski-space-mode as soon as I get

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? Three is evil, four

[CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Mike A. Harris
Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? I'm fully capable of driving to

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread m . roth
Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? Indentation wars. I don't *think* there was a usenet newsgroup for that

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? Indentation wars. I don't *think*

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Cody Jackson
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? I prefer two or four, usually two.

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread m . roth
Cody Jackson wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 04:41:44PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? I prefer two or

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Five, it goes BOOM, and, being bad in Thy Sight, will buy it. mark Hey, look! It's the old admin from scene 24... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/15/2011 3:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? White space should be meaningless, but unnecessary changes

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Keith Keller
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:23:29PM -0700, Cody Jackson wrote: I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if I want pi spaces? Or e*i? --keith --

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Keith Keller wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:23:29PM -0700, Cody Jackson wrote: I prefer two or four, usually two. Three is extremely disturbing to me because it is not a multiple of two I am constantly frustrated by being limited to a whole number of spaces. What if

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-15 Thread Patrick Lists
On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? Three is evil, four even more. Two spaces and what do