@Sean Yes, of course. No tabs. @Grant I must totally agree to your last sentence! ;-)
@Brendan Backspace? For un-indent? <know-it-all> Not needed within a good editor: Just Enter and } and your cursor is where it should be! </know-it-all> :-) Sorry for not beeing neutral... :-) Manfred 2005/10/5, CONNER, BRENDAN (SBCSI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > > > > > > > >
