Hi, > I'm curious to see if anyone has a very strong attachment to the tabs in the > source files. > > When I first looked at the source (in emacs) the formatting looked all messed > up. Sam then mentioned that the current style is to use a mix of tabs and > spaces. > > This just seems extremely weird to me. I have no issues with four space > indents, but mixing tabs and spaces just seems wrong. > > I'd like to propose a move to replacing tabs with (8) spaces. We could either > do this in one hit, or as a gradual change around the areas in the files that > are being changed.
Changing indention in an existing project with tens of thousands of code lines, breaking e.g. 'git blame' in the process (or at least making it way harder to use it), seems even more wrong to me. I wouldn't choose mixed indention if I were to start a new project now, but everyone with a somewhat capable editor should be able to deal with it after reading the style documentation. It was tried once to convert the compiz code away from mixed indention before (in the Beryl times) by using an indention script. I can only tell you that the result was horrible. Regards, Danny _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.compiz.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
