On 13 March 2007 15:12, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:02:44PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Can you explain that value? It's just that 1) I see vast acres and
>> acres of code where the tabstop size is two spaces 2) the coding standard
>> doesn't seem to /demand/ a specific tab size and 3) if we use 8-space TABs
>> with the kind of depths of nesting the gcc code often contains we're going
>> to exceed the 80-column line length limit just on the leading indentation
>> alone pretty often....
>
> GCC indents with tabs replacing eight leading spaces but an indentation
> depth of two spaces. I don't know where your acres and acres are,
> but they aren't in most GNU software.
Yeh, as explained, I was conflating tabstops with indents, sorry.
> Personally I think that regardless of your indentation preferences,
> using anything besides eight column tab stops for \t is silly; that's
> what "cat" is going to use.
Well, I always *used* to think of a tab stop as being unequivocally and
universally equal to 8 columns too, but that was a long time ago and since
then bitmapped displays and WYSIWYG editors have come into being ...
Anyway. The presence of the word "preferences" indicates to me that this
thread is liable to decay into an OT bikeshed debate if we keep it up, so I'm
dropping it now! :-)
cheers,
DaveK
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