On 05.04.2010, at 22:08, none (Gombok) wrote:

> Probably formatting documents could be overdone.
> I would prefer only handling indentation and not tampering other
> formatings like comments. (Exception may be to force spaces between
> keywords and parameters like in "for (;;)", but thats not absolute
> required)

One reason why we're discussing this is that we _have_ different
coding styles in some files. Thus, only reformatting indentation
would probably be suboptimal.

> I dont understand the dislike of tabs for indentation, cause its up
> to the user what width would be used on display.

I don't understand this sentence. I agree that I also like tabs for
indentation, but your sentence seems to imply that you think of
indentation width == tab width, but this is not the case in our
coding standard. Here, indentation width = 2, tab width = 8. Thus,
if someone indents 4 levels with 4 tabs (width 2), then this is
for me an indentation by 16 levels (4 tabs * 8 = 32 columns = 16
indent levels).

> So anything between
> start of line and the first character could be aligned with tabs.

... with tabs and (+) spaces !

I'm pro indenting with mixed tabs and spaces, because this is widely
used, and the file sizes would increase otherwise (random measurement:
10-20 %). This would probably not be too much, if compressed in the
tar balls, but svn updates and local working copies would be increased).

Albrecht
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