But you would agree that we should not have tabs right?  If your
editor is set to convert tabs to spaces we can semi-automate the
correction of this as you are suggesting.

sean

On 10/5/05, Manfred Geiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My 0,02:
> I prefer the semi-automatic way, i.e. beautify on demand for marked text only.
> There are always lines, that are better readable if formatted by hand.
> Although there are editors that are able to format code in a nearly
> perfect way [ IntelliJ! :-) ], they cannot beat human capabilities.
> Not yet, at least! :-)
> -Manfred
>
> 2005/10/5, Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Sean Schofield wrote:
> > > Reminder,
> > >
> > > Please remember to use spaces instead of tabs in your source code.
> > > Also you want your IDE to convert tabs to spaces to fix the ones that
> > > are left behind.  The source code is starting to get to be a mess and
> > > the patches and diffs start to get crazy because 50% of you seem to
> > > like tabs over spaces.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > sean
> > >
> > Thanks for the reminder, I will switch instantly...
> >
> > Btw. that reminds me I once used an ant based beautifier a while
> > ago which fixed those issues for me (jalopy)
> > Having an ant based beautify task worked exceptionally for me.
> > Whats the general opinion on this?
> >
> > The downside back then was that after a beautify run
> > basically all files were dirty to my cvs back then...
> > SVN should handle that better.
> >
> >
> >
> > Wernmer
> >
> >
>

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