On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Zdenek Styblik <zdenek.styb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Dan Gora <d...@adax.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Zdenek Styblik <zdenek.styb...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>>> So that the lines don't wrap around 80 columns...  I'm trying to
>>>> improve the code formatting of things a bit as it's a real hodge-podge
>>>> of styles.  ipmi_ekanalyzer.c is a total mess, but I can see that it
>>>> was just lifted whole-hog from ipmiutils.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I've guessed what it was about. Part/chunk 3 was alright-ish.
>>> Part/chunk 4 does nothing what you say. These lines end at 61/66 thus
>>> I see no reason why they should be split up. Or am I missing
>>> something?
>>
>> You must not be using 8 space tabstops then, because with 8 space
>> tabstops they did in fact wrap.  With chunk 4 applied, the line:
>>
>
> Yes, I'm using 2, and? Is there some standard for tab stop width?

yeah.. 8 spaces.  It's been that forever as far as I know..

I try to follow this more or less:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

> For
> example Python is using 4 white spaces as tabs, just saying.

I don't know.. I've never used python...

> And is that supposed to be an argument for doing ') {' -> '){'? If

No, it's an argument for doing the opposite, to add a space after the
closing parathesis and before the opening bracket so that it's easier
to see.

> this is supposed to be "better code" formatting, then imo it isn't.

Well at least it's consistent, which the current code base is anything but.

thanks
dan

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