I want to add one more perspective to this discussion. In terms of formatting, mixing tabs and spaces looks fine, but when I change indentation levels, my editor (vim) doesn't like mixed tabs and spaces. For example, I want to change the indentation level from 4 (two tabs) to 3 (one tab + 4 spaces), vim doesn't like it and hitting backspace deletes only one space. I found some settings to deal with it automagically, but entering after an opening brace does not indent properly yet and I have to manually deindent one level. I couldn't find any good trick to solve this issue if any exists.
I think, if we want to mix tabs and spaces, we need good support from our editors, otherwise, it can be very annoying to mix tabs and spaces manually. Huidae On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > Vaclav Petras wrote: > > > > The "rules" are that indentation in multiples of 4 columns, and we > > > don't care whether that indentation is acheived through spaces or > > > tabs. > > > > So, since we are providing a script and standard for indentation, let's > use > > only spaces* in this script (rather then enforcing mixing of tabs and > > spaces when there is no reason for it). > > Some might consider the reduction in file size to be a reason for > using tabs. I have no opinion either way. > > -- > Glynn Clements <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >
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