Suresh Thalamati wrote:
I find it hard to switch between spaces for new files and tabs for old
files. It is pain to remember to find, if a file is
tab-formatted/space-formatted, and format appropriately.
If most of the current code is formatted with tabs, why not use tabs
until we decided to reformat the code with spaces.
Unfortunately, this does not work as a large portion of the code (the
complete set of client code and other code as well ) already has
space indentation. Indenting with tabs and setting tab stop 4 in your
editor causes diff utilities such as svn diff and the visual diff tool
that I use to have unreadable indentation and making reviews very
hard. Again using 4 space indentation in tab indented code creates
the same problem with diffs.
We are gradually moving from driving on the left side of the road to the
right which is painful.
Kathey
BTW: I would most appreciate a pointer to a diff uitlity where I can set
tab stops to 4 if anyone knows of one.
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