Ceki's referring to "indentation level", not the number of spaces that comprise a tab character. The standard referenced also makes that distinction.
It's partly because of confusion people have with that distinction that it's best just to not use tab characters all together. It's not "safe" to automatically convert tabs to spaces because people do use different sizes for their tab characters. If they have theirs set at 4 spaces per tab, and you strip them out at 8 spaces per tab, the formatting gets horked. Jalopy will reformat for you too, but it's best to leave that up to the human eye as much as possible... -Jim Moore -----Original Message----- From: Scott Heaberlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:50 PM To: 'Log4J Developers List' Subject: RE: Spaces instead of tabs please Couldn't this be accomplished with the jalopy xml settings? Stripping tabs and replacing with n number of spaces? Anyways, the Sun standard specifies 8 spaces for tab stops. (http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc3.html#262). I have always thought that to be rather large, and see most places using either 4 or 8. -Scott Heaberlin > -----Original Message----- > From: Ceki Gülcü [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 12:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Spaces instead of tabs please > > > > Hello all, > > I'd like to quickly mention that our code uses spaces instead > of tabs, and > the indention has two space characters. > > For Eclipse users this means: > > - checking *off* "Insert tabs for indentation, not spaces" under > Preferences -> Java -> Code formatter -> Style > > - Setting "Number of spaces representing indentation level" to 2 > > Do correct me if I am wrong. > > -- > Ceki Gülcü > > For log4j documentation consider "The complete log4j manual" > ISBN: 2970036908 http://www.qos.ch/shop/products/clm_t.jsp > > import org.apache.Facetime; > ApacheCon US 2003, 18-21 November http://apachecon.com/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
