On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Jim Mankovich <jm...@hp.com> wrote: > > I would advocate always using tab for indentation. Then you can change it > to be any number of spaces in your editor. This is what I generally do, > and for > many of the files in ipmitool I set my editor to have a tab stop of 4 so > that > the lines don't wrap.
yes I do use tabs for indentation, the problem is that other people have to read your code too and have no idea how many spaces that you use for tabstops. So code that looks perfectly reasonable with 4 space tabstops looks like an utter mess with 8. There is no reason to use anything other than 8 for tabstops. This is what most sane people expect and what most editors default to. If ipmitool had a stated, documented, consistent coding style, I would use it. However it just has a mess right now, so I'm using a known, documented, widely used style that's used in many many other open source projects. thanks d ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network management and security costs.Learn how to hire the most talented Cisco Certified professionals. Visit the Employer Resources Portal http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/employer_resources/index.html _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
