On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:45:52AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:56:49PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > | Nevertheless, I find 8-space indentation too wasteful, 4-space > | indentation too cumbersome to type, and 1-space indentation > | unreadable. > > Your editor should do that for you! :-)
If I can only find an editor that suits my taste... vi is Very Irritating, and emacs is an Extremely Massive And Cumbersome System. > e.g. set softtabstop=4 in vim will allow you to have 4-character > indentation by pressing the tab key and outdentation by pressing > backspace, but the file will contain spaces instead of tabs. I would > be surprised if other editors did not have a similar feature. Keep in mind that I can't stand vi and hate emacs, so I'm still using a very old (non-free!) editor. It's not exactly the greatest, but it irritates me the least. > Personally I prefer 8-space indentation, though. [snip] I find that it is too restrictive, given that I insist on a 79-column limit on code lines. With 8-space indentation, you run out of nesting levels really fast, much faster than is possible to do non-trivial coding in. T -- The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left-handed people are in their right mind. -- Manoj Srivastava