Hans de Graaff wrote: > I'm not sure this also applies to the format tag, but is this really > needed? All the files have standard extensions like .c and .h, so I > never have trouble to associate the right mode with them.
I don't known the default settings of emacs but a tab is usually considered being 8 spaces wide. Using spaces instead of tabs is probably not a default for any editor either and it would bloat the sources by over 1 MB. So without the indent tags, the sources look just ugly due to use of non-standard 4 spaces tabs. The other idea behind this is that contributors who use a standard editor do not have to modify their settings just to conform to the style rules. The latter just causes trouble when you're working on several projects with different indentation rules. Of course, it would be optimal if this information could be put in one file instead of each but such an automagic is not supported by any of the standard editors, as far as I know. Well, you can think of dozens of tricks (scripts, symlinks etc.) to accomplish the same but the inline format tags are the only open-and-type solution. -- Christian
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