Bryan Pendleton wrote:
I'm having trouble getting my editor set up properly
to work with the Derby source code.
Can somebody send me the commonly-accepted Derby source
code tab-and-spacing conventions?
I'm using VIM, so ideally if somebody could point me at
a .vimrc that set things up "the right way"...
thanks,
bryan
P.S. Here's what I currently use; it intentionally avoids
putting hard tabs into the code because I've found they
don't work as well as spaces.
I don't know much about VIM, but I completely agree with you on this -
tabs are evil, since the width of a tab character is up to the
presenting application, whereas a space is always a space.
The standard indentation width in Derby is 4 monospace characters. I use
4 spaces in any new code I contribute. It doesn't always look nice mixed
with the tab-indented lines if you just display a source file in a
terminal window, but I don't think that's an issue. People write code in
editors, and usually set up the editors to display a 4-character
indentation for the tab characters.
:filetype indent on
:set softtabstop=4
:set shiftwidth=4
:set expandtab
:set ic
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Oyvind Bakksjo
Sun Microsystems, Database Technology Group
Trondheim, Norway
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/bakksjo/
