Where I've worked, we've always used tabs, because many IDEs can be configured to visually display tabs as equivalent to any number of spaces. (Plus, it's a lot easier to backspace one character, rather than 4, to get rid of a tab.)
Just my two cents... - Brendan -----Original Message----- From: Sean Schofield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 9:20 AM To: MyFaces Development; Manfred Geiler Subject: Re: Coding Standards Reminder 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 > > > > >
