Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now back to coding, oh and don't forget send a patch for CodingStyle > since a mail without one is often taken even less seriously. Someone with a patch to Emacs to use tabs for ident + spaces for alignment maybe? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now back to coding, oh and don't forget send a patch for CodingStyle since a mail without one is often taken even less seriously. Someone with a patch to Emacs to use tabs for ident + spaces for alignment maybe? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb 25 2008 23:13, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: >> Why do people even respond to these trolls...? >> > Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion. It has been discussed before, at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/19 . What is really

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb. 25, 2008, 13:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benny Halevy wrote: >> On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >>> Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Miles Bader wrote: Why do people even respond to these trolls...? -Miles Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion. Unfortunately, I have not, during my ~2 years on the list, seen anything of the sort and would like to, in that case, request a small

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. You mean for split lines? Syntactic indentation vs alignment

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Benny Halevy wrote: On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Benny Halevy wrote: On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. You mean for split lines? Syntactic indentation vs alignment (including

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Miles Bader wrote: Why do people even respond to these trolls...? -Miles Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion. Unfortunately, I have not, during my ~2 years on the list, seen anything of the sort and would like to, in that case, request a small

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb. 25, 2008, 13:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benny Halevy wrote: On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2,

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb 25 2008 23:13, Richard Knutsson wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Why do people even respond to these trolls...? Obviously, this must to have been discussed before, with a clear conclusion. It has been discussed before, at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/12/19 . What is really frustrating is

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Why do people even respond to these trolls...? -Miles -- Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation >> only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. >> > You mean for split lines? Syntactic indentation vs alignment (including comments after non-blank,

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Why hinder a developer who prefer >>> 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? >>> >> I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. You mean

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why hinder a developer who prefer > 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. > By only using tabs as indents, and >

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. By only using tabs as indents, and changing

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. You mean for

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

On Feb. 24, 2008, 7:40 -0800, Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why hinder a developer who prefer 2, 4, 6 or any other != 8 width? I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only.

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Richard Knutsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we could use tabs only at the line start, for indentation only. Rather hard to implement, most text editors can't do that yet. You mean for split lines? Syntactic indentation vs alignment (including comments after non-blank, values for

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Why do people even respond to these trolls...? -Miles -- Success, n. The one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Good evening In the thread "Merging of completely unreviewed drivers" I got reminded of the "use tabs not spaces"-mentality. My question is: why? The tab-character serves us well as a indent-indicator, but for some reason there has been focus on its relation to spaces. On the question "How

Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

Good evening In the thread Merging of completely unreviewed drivers I got reminded of the use tabs not spaces-mentality. My question is: why? The tab-character serves us well as a indent-indicator, but for some reason there has been focus on its relation to spaces. On the question How long