Ah, "space wars" and "brace wars" rise again! I'd like to propose that no "standard" be imposed...until a beautifier (text filter) has been created to implement such a norm. After which, everyone can peer at the code through their own rose-colored beautifiers. ;-)
Cheers, --ken ritchie (atlanta) PS, I'll set mine to 4 columns. That's a factor of 8, and close to an optimum setting for human reading performance...according to a study (many moons ago) aired by Ben Shneiderman and the HCIL folks at UMD (They reported peak performance around 3 to 4 columns, back in the days of line printers. Anyone remember "greenbar" tractor paper?) On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am 22.06.2008 um 11:41 schrieb John Leuner: > > What do you use a teletype for? >> >> John >> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype > > SCNR, > > - Bert - > > > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:45 -0700, Ian Piumarta wrote: >> >>> Set your tabs stops every eight columns and the source will be >>> aligned properly. >>> >>> I like the tabs in the source because I can move around indented >>> lines faster (and the file is a few bytes shorter). I also like >>> braces lined up like this >>> >>> if (foo) >>> { >>> bar(); >>> } >>> >>> which would mean a tab width of 2 to make everything be tabbist - >>> which might just as well stay as spaces. (But tabs every 2 would >>> also make the source almost immediately run off the right hand edge >>> when viewed on my teletype, with its tabs hard-wired at every eighth >>> column, not to mention the cacophony of bell ringing that would ensue >>> every time it reached the margin set 10 spaces before the right-hand >>> edge of the paper.) >>> >>> FWIW, I don't do anything special to Emacs (which I use when away >>> from my teletype) to get this behaviour - tabs every eight, and >>> compressing multiple spaces into single tab characters when possible, >>> is the default behaviour. Works for me, but then I still think of my >>> computer as a typewriter - with pretty colours and unlimited built-in >>> tippex. >>> >>> Spaced-out people should refer to expand(1). >>> >>> HTH, >>> Ian >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> fonc mailing list >>> fonc@vpri.org >>> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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